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father-slayer en · NOUN

Etymology

From Middle English fadyr slaer, fadur sleer, equivalent to father + slayer.

Meanings

1. (uncommon) One who kills or murders one's father; a patricide
   • “Calm yourself, brother. I'm merely having a drink here, nothing more. I assumed you had similar intentions... I guess you're out hunting though!” Michael bared his runesword. “I am. Prepare for judgment Father-slayer!” 2014, Marios Koutsoukos, Apolysis: Apocalypse Is Just The Beginning:
   • His eyes moved to Calandryll, once more asking an unspoken question. Bracht grinned conspiratorially, answering: “In a while ... He will post Calandryll outlaw, claiming him a father-slayer.” 2010, Angus Wells, Dark Magic: The Godwars:
   • Christy Mahon was the factor which destroyed the equilibrium of the lives of the Flaugherty's and Villagers, because he was an alleged fatherslayer. 1952, William Daniel Simpson, The Creation of the Role of Christy in John M. Synge's The Playboy of the Western World, and an Analysis of the Acting Problems Involved:
   • In these aspects the relationship seems almost to follow an archetype of the relations between immigrant Jewish fathers and their talented sons in modern times. All such sons have been, in a sense, father-slayers. 1993, Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi, Freud's Moses: Judaism Terminable and Interminable, page 63:
   • The magus called Beast's Bane, who drew down sirithar and so could not be permitted to live, and who was a bastard and a warrior and a father-slayer, was also, impossibly, Stelian. 2014, Laini Taylor, Dreams of Gods & Monsters:
   • “And if it is not Roh who gives the orders,” Kithan said, “if it is Hetharu, what shall I say, Man?” “I do not know,” Vanye said. “But a father-slayer will hardly stick at brother-killing; and he will share nothing with you . . . not unless he loves you well. 2015, C. J. Cherryh, The Complete Morgaine:

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