liberticide

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Adjective 1.3 Noun 2 Italian 2.1 Adjective

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[edit] Etymology

From the French liberticide, coined around the time of the French Revolution.

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liberticide (not comparable)

1. Causing the destruction of liberty; oppressive, liberticidal
   • 1847, Lydia Maria Francis Child (translator), Memoirs of Madame de Staël, and of Madame Roland, page 235-236:

   by assembling at her house, in secret council, the principal chiefs of that conspiracy, and by keeping up a correspondence tending to facilitate their liberticide designs.

[edit] Noun

liberticide (plural liberticides)

1. One who causes the destruction of liberty.
   • 1821, Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Adonais":

   Blind, old, and lonely, when his country's pride, / The priest, the slave, and the liberticide / Trampled and mocked with many a loathed rite / Of lust and blood; he went, unterrified, /

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[edit] Italian

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liberticide f.

1. Feminine plural form of liberticida