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Fratricide   /frˈætrəsˌaɪd/   Listen
Fratricide

noun
1.
A person who murders their brother or sister.
2.
Fire that injures or kills an ally.  Synonym: friendly fire.
3.
The murder of your sibling.





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"Fratricide" Quotes from Famous Books



... Roman pride never shows itself more conspicuously throughout all history, than in the alienation of heart which inevitably followed any great and continued outrages upon his own majesty, committed by their emperor. Cruelties the most atrocious, acts of vengeance the most bloody, fratricide, parricide, all were viewed with more toleration than oblivion of his own inviolable sanctity. Hence we imagine the wrath with which Rome would behold Commodus, under the eyes of four hundred thousand spectators, making himself a party to the contests of gladiators. ...
— The Caesars • Thomas de Quincey
... die the death," he said. "Is it not so?" he added fiercely to David, and gazed at him fixedly. Would this man of peace plead for the traitor, the would-be fratricide? ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... the case of a paranoiac woman who was in litigation with her father over some trifling inheritance left by her mother, and who accused her father of a murder, and insinuated that she had heard her grandfather call him a fratricide. ...
— Studies in Forensic Psychiatry • Bernard Glueck
... not of the old covenant but of the new, the Covenant of the Eternal Spirit. Behold the Surety of the promise of the purified heart, the promise sealed with that sprinkled blood of the Incarnate Lamb which, in Divine antithesis to the call for vengeance on the fratricide which went up from Abel's death, claims for the "brethren" who once slew their Deliverer not remission only ...
— Messages from the Epistle to the Hebrews • Handley C.G. Moule
... with the world, it shows what a rotten fruit it is by hating, persecuting, and putting to death as evil-doers and impostors its very benefactors. This trait it inherits, John tells us, from its ancestor Cain, the great fratricide saint. He is a true picture of the world of all times, and ever its spirit and fashion is ...
— Epistle Sermons, Vol. III - Trinity Sunday to Advent • Martin Luther


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