Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who kills a king; a regicide.
- noun A large, high-finned killer-whale, supposed to be the male.
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Examples
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No king-killer has ever had such a vast array of effective weapons within such easy reach.
Peter Clothier: King Killers: The Art of Personal and Political Assassination 2010
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When I hear the negative judgment of a king-killer, I try to remind myself to turn that judgment around and apply it to its source, to see whether the indictment is not more about the accuser than the accused.
Peter Clothier: King Killers: The Art of Personal and Political Assassination 2010
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No king-killer has ever had such a vast array of effective weapons within such easy reach.
Peter Clothier: King Killers: The Art of Personal and Political Assassination 2010
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When I hear the negative judgment of a king-killer, I try to remind myself to turn that judgment around and apply it to its source, to see whether the indictment is not more about the accuser than the accused.
Peter Clothier: King Killers: The Art of Personal and Political Assassination 2010
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It is not hard to see why Shakespeare, writing in the restless 1590s, shied away from delving too deeply into the character and motivation of a young, martial king-killer.
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It is not hard to see why Shakespeare, writing in the restless 1590s, shied away from delving too deeply into the character and motivation of a young, martial king-killer.
Archive 2007-07-01 2007
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It is not hard to see why Shakespeare, writing in the restless 1590s, shied away from delving too deeply into the character and motivation of a young, martial king-killer.
Archive 2007-07-01 2007
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It is not hard to see why Shakespeare, writing in the restless 1590s, shied away from delving too deeply into the character and motivation of a young, martial king-killer.
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Alexander was a king; Solomon, the wisest of men, was a king; Napoleon was a king; Caesar died in his attempt to become one, and Cromwell, the puritan and king-killer, aspired to regality.
The Last Man 2003
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Was it possible that the member of the Committee of Public Safety, the king-killer, the queen-killer, could in earnest mean to deliver his old confederates, his bosom friends, to the executioner, solely because they had planned an act which, if there were any truth in his own Carmagnoles, was in the highest degree virtuous and glorious?
Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829
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