kinslayer

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English

Etymology

From kin +‎ slayer.

Noun

kinslayer (plural kinslayers)

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