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principicide

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Principicide (noun) means the act of killing a prince.

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The act of killing a prince.

"It was a terrible, but all too excusable crime, principicide." — Meirion James Trow (2005)

"The Roumanians hold the world record for principicide, or the assassination of princes, with Serbia—whose record in this regard is not to be despised, either—a bad second." — Eugene Pivany, Appendix B. Roumania’s Territorial Claims. [From a treatise entitled “Roumania in Hungary, (1919)

A person who kills a prince.

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