Wondering how to use Regicide in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as killer or slayer.
Regicide meaning
The killing of a king.
Using Regicide
- The main meaning on this page is: The killing of a king.
- Useful related words include: killer, slayer, murder, slaying.
- In the example corpus, regicide often appears in combinations such as: the regicide, regicide to.
Context around Regicide
- Average sentence length in these examples: 30 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 5 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 10 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Regicide
- In this selection, "regicide" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 30 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, cataclysmic, committed, first and peace stand out and add context to how "regicide" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include act of regicide by accepting and and the regicide which meant. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "regicide" sits close to words such as aab, aamer and aave, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with regicide
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
In August Pridi was forced to resign amid suspicion that he had been involved in the regicide. (17 words)
Burke's last publications were the Letters on a Regicide Peace (October 1796), called forth by negotiations for peace with France by the Pitt government. (25 words)
He is unsure whether Macbeth committed regicide to gain the throne, but muses in a soliloquy that "I fear / Thou play'dst most foully for 't". (26 words)
In the nascent movement for Italian independence, with its mini-insurgences and revolutions, the foreign powers that controlled the separate states were in no mood to sanction a plot that depicted a regicide, even one set in far-off Sweden. (40 words)
For the 20th century philosopher Jean-François Lyotard the regicide was the starting point of all French thought, the memory of which acts as a reminder that French modernity began under the sign of a crime. (36 words)
The xaursi’s homeworld has been destroyed by the cataclysmic Regicide, and nowadays, the orphaned race, always focusing on a dualistic and holistic approach, has been tinted with twangs of sadness and loss. (33 words)
The beginning of Act Four is marked by the quarrel scene, where Brutus attacks Cassius for soiling the noble act of regicide by accepting bribes ("Did not great Julius bleed for justice' sake? (33 words)
Example sentences (11)
The petition was filed by Kungwal Buddhivanid, 62, a trained chemist and former business executive who in 2020 published a book challenging the official explanation that the king died from regicide.
The xaursi’s homeworld has been destroyed by the cataclysmic Regicide, and nowadays, the orphaned race, always focusing on a dualistic and holistic approach, has been tinted with twangs of sadness and loss.
In the nascent movement for Italian independence, with its mini-insurgences and revolutions, the foreign powers that controlled the separate states were in no mood to sanction a plot that depicted a regicide, even one set in far-off Sweden.
Burke's last publications were the Letters on a Regicide Peace (October 1796), called forth by negotiations for peace with France by the Pitt government.
For the 20th century philosopher Jean-François Lyotard the regicide was the starting point of all French thought, the memory of which acts as a reminder that French modernity began under the sign of a crime.
He is unsure whether Macbeth committed regicide to gain the throne, but muses in a soliloquy that "I fear / Thou play'dst most foully for 't".
He was the first regicide to be hanged, drawn and quartered because he was considered by the new government to represent a continued real threat to the re-established order.
In August Pridi was forced to resign amid suspicion that he had been involved in the regicide.
Michelet's Histoire de la Révolution Française and Alphonse de Lamartine's Histoire des Girondins, in particular, showed the marks of the feelings aroused by the revolution's regicide.
The beginning of Act Four is marked by the quarrel scene, where Brutus attacks Cassius for soiling the noble act of regicide by accepting bribes ("Did not great Julius bleed for justice' sake?
The first was "healing and settling" the nation after the chaos of the civil wars and the regicide, which meant establishing a stable form for the new government to take.
Common combinations with regicide
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the regicide 3×
- regicide to 2×