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单词 parricide
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Definition of parricide in English:

parricide

noun ˈparɪsʌɪdˈpɛrəˌsaɪd
mass noun
  • 1The killing of a parent or other near relative.

    杀父;杀母;杀亲

    Example sentencesExamples
    • While Oedipus loses his ability to name his parents due to his incest and parricide, Augustus loses his power to recognize parricide and incest because he has been denied the freedom to know his parentage.
    • Eventually the narrative reaches its climax and the tantalizing underworld of desire and fear destroys itself in an orgiastic frenzy of voyeurism, a chase with guns, violence, and an Oedipal parricide.
    • Freud guessed that the murder of Moses reinforced the inherited sense of guilt dating from the primal parricide described above, and caused a lasting unconscious sense of guilt in the Jewish people.
    • She can point out that that story, that progress, began in blood, fear, tears, and leads to repeated antagonisms, repeated parricides, repeated wars: it leads to death.
    • In 1874, Dostoevsky began work on his final novel, The Brothers Karamazov, his literary masterpiece of parricide that reflected and prophesized the death of the Tsar and in turn, traditional Russian society.
    • Thus, the Oedipal version of parricide and incest conflates identification and difference; they meet at the crossroads, if you will.
    • She is inexorably engulfed by the cloud of shame that surrounds parricide.
    • Freud emphasises parricide, both in regard to the Oedipal urge and to the primal horde, where sons kill the father.
    • Both were executed, along with 52 others suspected of involvement in the machinations of Batz, dressed in red, the colour of parricide.
    • Irigaray wonders why law and community have to be founded on violence as in Freud's founding of culture on parricide in Totem and Taboo and symbolic sacrifice as in Girard's Violence and the Sacred: ‘Why did speech fail?’
    • Recalling the unspecified horror of Robert Longo's ‘Men in the City’ series, Mull's 5-by-7-foot elegy to parricide, War and Peace, is pervaded by a sense of violence.
    • Roscius had much to be thankful for, since he was accused of parricide.
    • And Bacon did not allude to the tragic sequel - incest and parricide - as if his Oedipus has emerged triumphant, blessed by his wound and thereby bestowing blessings.
    • The Fast Runner, the first feature made in the Inuit language, tells an ancient tale of how an evil spirit descended on a tribe, causing a blood feud that involved treachery, adultery, and parricide.
    • The work ends on a heart-stopping note: A man and woman step forward and read names of those wrongly convicted for murder, parricide, rape, child molestation, with the length of imprisonment.
    • The event in his life most frequently depicted in classical literature is neither parricide, nor incest, nor blinding, but exile - the least important event in King Oedipus, and therefore in Freud.
    • Khrushchev also feared the fallout of his impending parricide, yet held ‘a naïve faith that socialism, once purified of its Stalinist stain, would command ever more loyalty from its beneficiaries.’
    • While the novel addresses a complex case of parricide, Brooks focuses on the one brother's desire to confess to the murder of his father when he did not, in fact, commit the murder.
    • Whereas incest and parricide are the foretold destiny of Oedipus, that which causes his tragedy and Jocasta's destruction, here incest and parricide are by-products of the institution of slavery.
    • Rape, incest, parricide, sacrilege, sodomy and tribadism, pedophilia and all the most horrible forms of torture and murder were associated with sexual arousal in the writings of Sade.
    Synonyms
    murder, taking of life, assassination, homicide, manslaughter, liquidation, elimination, doing to death, putting to death, execution, dispatch, martyrdom
    1. 1.1count noun A person who commits parricide.
      杀父者;杀母者;杀亲者
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Now, when we see that in Rome the parricide was whipped with the red twigs of the cornel tree, an arbor infelix, the conclusion seems evident.

Derivatives

  • parricidal

  • adjective parɪˈsʌɪd(ə)lˌpɛrəˈsaɪdl
    • Repression of both incestuous and parricidal wishes take place and with this a recognition of the father as authority (represented in the film by the court case), the capacity for conscience, guilt and concern, the superego.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Asexual reproduction by means of parricidal increase occurs commonly.
      • Morphological changes caused by parricidal increase seem to be the same as in other cases.
      • He derides Bloom for ‘his sentimental discrediting of influence’, and calls the theory of the anxiety of influence a ‘melodramatic sub-Freudian parricidal scenario’.
      • The latter, however, would only renew competition among the parricidal males, a vicious circle that is only avoided if all accept equality with respect to the possession of mates.

Origin

Late 16th century: from French, from Latin parricidium 'murder of a parent', with first element of unknown origin, but for long associated with Latin pater 'father' and parens 'parent'.

Definition of parricide in US English:

parricide

nounˈpɛrəˌsaɪdˈperəˌsīd
  • 1The killing of a parent or other near relative.

    杀父;杀母;杀亲

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Khrushchev also feared the fallout of his impending parricide, yet held ‘a naïve faith that socialism, once purified of its Stalinist stain, would command ever more loyalty from its beneficiaries.’
    • Eventually the narrative reaches its climax and the tantalizing underworld of desire and fear destroys itself in an orgiastic frenzy of voyeurism, a chase with guns, violence, and an Oedipal parricide.
    • Recalling the unspecified horror of Robert Longo's ‘Men in the City’ series, Mull's 5-by-7-foot elegy to parricide, War and Peace, is pervaded by a sense of violence.
    • She is inexorably engulfed by the cloud of shame that surrounds parricide.
    • The event in his life most frequently depicted in classical literature is neither parricide, nor incest, nor blinding, but exile - the least important event in King Oedipus, and therefore in Freud.
    • Whereas incest and parricide are the foretold destiny of Oedipus, that which causes his tragedy and Jocasta's destruction, here incest and parricide are by-products of the institution of slavery.
    • While Oedipus loses his ability to name his parents due to his incest and parricide, Augustus loses his power to recognize parricide and incest because he has been denied the freedom to know his parentage.
    • Thus, the Oedipal version of parricide and incest conflates identification and difference; they meet at the crossroads, if you will.
    • Roscius had much to be thankful for, since he was accused of parricide.
    • And Bacon did not allude to the tragic sequel - incest and parricide - as if his Oedipus has emerged triumphant, blessed by his wound and thereby bestowing blessings.
    • She can point out that that story, that progress, began in blood, fear, tears, and leads to repeated antagonisms, repeated parricides, repeated wars: it leads to death.
    • In 1874, Dostoevsky began work on his final novel, The Brothers Karamazov, his literary masterpiece of parricide that reflected and prophesized the death of the Tsar and in turn, traditional Russian society.
    • Freud emphasises parricide, both in regard to the Oedipal urge and to the primal horde, where sons kill the father.
    • Rape, incest, parricide, sacrilege, sodomy and tribadism, pedophilia and all the most horrible forms of torture and murder were associated with sexual arousal in the writings of Sade.
    • The Fast Runner, the first feature made in the Inuit language, tells an ancient tale of how an evil spirit descended on a tribe, causing a blood feud that involved treachery, adultery, and parricide.
    • Irigaray wonders why law and community have to be founded on violence as in Freud's founding of culture on parricide in Totem and Taboo and symbolic sacrifice as in Girard's Violence and the Sacred: ‘Why did speech fail?’
    • Both were executed, along with 52 others suspected of involvement in the machinations of Batz, dressed in red, the colour of parricide.
    • The work ends on a heart-stopping note: A man and woman step forward and read names of those wrongly convicted for murder, parricide, rape, child molestation, with the length of imprisonment.
    • Freud guessed that the murder of Moses reinforced the inherited sense of guilt dating from the primal parricide described above, and caused a lasting unconscious sense of guilt in the Jewish people.
    • While the novel addresses a complex case of parricide, Brooks focuses on the one brother's desire to confess to the murder of his father when he did not, in fact, commit the murder.
    Synonyms
    murder, taking of life, assassination, homicide, manslaughter, liquidation, elimination, doing to death, putting to death, execution, dispatch, martyrdom
    1. 1.1 A person who commits parricide.
      杀父者;杀母者;杀亲者
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Now, when we see that in Rome the parricide was whipped with the red twigs of the cornel tree, an arbor infelix, the conclusion seems evident.

Origin

Late 16th century: from French, from Latin parricidium ‘murder of a parent’, with first element of unknown origin, but for long associated with Latin pater ‘father’ and parens ‘parent’.

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