regnicide

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English

Noun

regnicide (plural regnicides)

  1. (obsolete, rare) One who destroys a kingdom.
    • 1629, Thomas Adams, England's Sickness (sermon)
      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.