deicidal

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Etymology

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From deicide +‎ -al.

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Adjective

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deicidal (comparative more deicidal, superlative most deicidal)

  1. Of or pertaining to deicide.
    • 2000, Malka Hillel Shulewitz, The forgotten millions: the modern Jewish exodus from Arab lands, page 47:
      Early Christian doctrine professed that the Jews were a deicidal people, condemned by God to dispersion and suffering.
    • 2006, Rich Burlew, The Order of the Stick: No Cure for the Paladin Blues, page 275:
      "How do you like that, you deicidal maniac? Huh? HUH? Now who's so big and tough?" "Dude, don't taunt the god-killing abomination."
    • 2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 382:
      'Jerusalem overawes me' declared François-René, Vicomte de Chateaubriand, even though this 'deicidal city' was 'a heap of rubbish' with the 'confused monuments of a cemetery in the middle of a desert'.

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