Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The killing of a tyrant or despot.
- noun One who kills a tyrant or despot.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who kills a tyrant.
- noun The act of killing a tyrant; the putting a tyrannical ruler to death on account of his acts.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of killing a tyrant.
- noun One who kills a tyrant.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The killing of a
tyrant .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun killing a tyrant
Etymologies
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Examples
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The parliament itself of Paris, the tribunal of justice, heard the harangues of the duke's advocate in defence of assassination, which he termed tyrannicide; and that assembly, partly influenced by faction, partly overawed by power, pronounced no sentence of condemnation against this detestable doctrine. [
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part B. From Henry III. to Richard III. David Hume 1743
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For extreme cases some, he tells us, have suggested tyrannicide, that is, execution by private persons.
The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas Dino Bigongiari 1997
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The sixth is, when the commands are grievous; and they account him that commandeth grievous things, a tyrant; and tyrannicide, that is, the killing of a tyrant, not only lawful, but also laudable.
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Even private "tyrannicide" is warranted as a last resort to remove such a usurping tyrant, Beza allowed.
Latest Articles Law and History Review 2009
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There are lots of cases where killing is legitimate: among them being just war, tyrannicide, and the death penalty.
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Hitler was so illegal his own countrymen opted for a failed tyrannicide attempt.
Wonk Room » Why Counting Undocumented Immigrants In The 2010 Census Counts For A Lot 2009
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Since most of us today, whether by choice or otherwise, are Lockean constitutionalists, we would do well to start this analysis with an overview of the conditions under which that influential political philosopher justified the citizens '' appeal to heaven ', that is, to tyrannicide.
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After all, my first academic publication in the Humane Studies Review has a whole section on the philosophy of tyrannicide.
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St. Just's depiction of Tallien as Antony implicitly associates Robespierre with Brutus, the tyrannicide.
Annotations 2007
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He was considered a noble tyrannicide, a sort of Finnish Brutus.
A Finnish Brutus? Matterhorn 2009
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