Regicide

/ɹɪd‍ʒˈɪsa‍ɪd/

/ɹɪdʒˈɪsaɪd/

Regicide

the act of killing a king

someone who commits regicide; the killer of a king

Examples

1. This act of regicide sparks the War of the Dwarves and Orcs.

2. Not unless you particularly enjoy plagues, fires, regicides and dubious personal hygiene.

3. It's the era of the protectorates, the regicide of Charles I, Restoration of Charles II.

4. Milton wrote in Latin for the benefit of the entire European intellectual community two defenses of the crime of the regicide.