Meanings
nounregnicide (plural regnicides)
plural regnicides
- obsoleterareOne who destroys a kingdom.
It appears then, regicides are no less than regnicides […] for the life of a king contains a thousand thousand lives; and traitors make the land sick which they live in.
1629, Thomas Adams, England's Sickness (sermon)
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