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kinslayer en · NOUN

Etymology

From kin + slayer.

Meanings

1. (in fantasy fiction, rare) One who slays his or her own kin; a parricide.
   • Associated by the poet with Cain, primordial kinslayer and therefore symbol of elemental social disunity, he stalks abroad, ravaging only by night... 1978, Michael James Swanton, editor, Beowulf:
   • I would not invoke the curse of a kinslayer. 1982, Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon:

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