Regicide

How it is used

The word can name an act or a person; establish which meaning the sentence requires.

Example sentences

1. The trial transformed the debate about rebellion into a debate about regicide.

   Removing a ruler and killing one are distinct acts.

2. The returning court treated the signatories as regicides.

   Here the plural identifies people blamed for the death.

Common collocations

• commit regicide
• the trial of the regicides

Related terms

• monarchyA system of government in which a king, queen, emperor or other hereditary ruler is head of state, or a country governed in this way.
• revolutionThe sudden, often violent overthrow of a government or political system by its people, or any deep and rapid change in society, the economy or ideas.

More terms: Revolutions and Political Change

• uprising
• reform
• nationalism
• independence
• coup
• regime
• counter-revolution
• iconoclasm
• enfranchisement
• disenfranchisement
• suffragist
• suffragette