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Definition of Fratricide

1. Noun. A person who murders their brother or sister.

2. Noun. Fire that injures or kills an ally.

3. Noun. The murder of your sibling.

Definition of Fratricide

1. n. The act of one who murders or kills his own brother.

Definition of Fratricide

1. Noun. The killing of one's brother (or sister). ¹

2. Noun. A person who commits this crime. ¹

3. Noun. (military by extension) The intentional or unintentional killing of a comrade in arms. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fratricide

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fratricide

fraternizations fraternize fraternized fraternizer fraternizers fraternizes fraternizing fraters fratery frathouse

frathouses frati fratrage fratricidal fratricidally fratricide fratricides fratries fratry frats

frau fraud fraud in fact fraud in law fraud in the factum fraud in the inducement fraudful fraudless fraudonomics fraudproof

Literary usage of Fratricide

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare, Walter Morris Hart (1917)
"APPENDIX C Fratricide PUNISHED MOST of our information respecting the ... The following facts bear upon the relations of Fratricide Punished to our Hamlet. ..."

2. Wyoming: Its History, Stirring Incidents, and Romantic Adventures by George Peck (1858)
"THE Fratricide. THE story of a Tory shooting Ms brother on Mono- easy Island on the day of the battle, which we have told ..."

3. Shakespeare in Germany in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: An by Albert Cohn (1865)
"Fratricide PUNISHED, OR PRINCE HAMLET OF DENMARK.) In the present impression the German text has been given as it stands in the ..."

4. History of the Reformation in Europe in the Time of Calvin by Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné (1880)
"... to be loved should be enough to arouse hatred against those who profess it, and even hatred of so monstrous a kind as to show itself in fratricide. ..."

5. Who Goes TherePolitical Science (2004)
"Avoiding Fratricide of Land Surface Targets All of the US fratricidal ... The fratricide of the Persian Gulf War was unusual compared to that of past wars. ..."

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