tsaricide

• czaricide

From tsar +‎ -icide.^[1][2]

• IPA^(key): /ˈ(t)sɑːɹɪsaɪd/, /ˈzɑːɹɪsaɪd/

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tsaricide (countable and uncountable, plural tsaricides)

1. The killing of a tsar.
   • 2009, Claudia Verhoeven, “From the Files of the Karakozov Case: The Virtual Birth of Terrorism”, in The Odd Man Karakozov: Imperial Russia, Modernity, and the Birth of Terrorism, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 20:

     It had been those wishing to unleash a revolution “sooner,” so said the count, who had come to advocate tsaricide.

2. (countable) One who kills a tsar.
   • 1893 May, George Kennan, “The Russian Extradition Treaty”, in The Forum, volume XV, New York, N.Y.: Forum Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 294:

     It would be manifestly unjust, I think, to extradite a Tsaricide upon the ground that he is not a political offender, and then allow his own government to try him by court-martial and hang him solely upon the ground that he is a political offender.

   • 2006, Chester Dunning with Lidiia Lotman and Antony Wood, “Notes to Pushkin’s Comedy”, in The Uncensored Boris Godunov: The Case for Pushkin’s Original Comedy […] (Publications of the Wisconsin Center for Pushkin Studies), Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, page 468:

     Thus, Boris Godunov suffered from a “miraculous” conflation of two incompitable myths: that he was a tsaricide, and that the real Dmitry still lived.

   • 2009, Claudia Verhoeven, “From the Files of the Karakozov Case: The Virtual Birth of Terrorism”, in The Odd Man Karakozov: Imperial Russia, Modernity, and the Birth of Terrorism, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 21:

     [U]pon execution of his crime, the tsaricide was to poison himself, leaving behind only an explanatory proclamation.

   • 2017, Lynn Ellen Patyk, “Notes”, in Written in Blood: Revolutionary Terrorism and Russian Literary Culture, 1861–1881, Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, part 2, chapter 2, note 18, page 283:

     In fact, Katkov had begun singing this conspiracy theory tune immediately following Karakozov’s attempt, when it was rumored that the would-be tsaricide was a “foreigner” […]

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