deicidal
Pronunciations
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[deɪ(j)ɪˈsaɪdəɫ]
Pronunciation notes
- UK
Adjective
Of or pertaining to deicide.
Usage- not-comparable
- Examples
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Early Christian doctrine professed that the Jews were a deicidal people, condemned by God to dispersion and suffering.
"How do you like that, you deicidal maniac? Huh? HUH? Now who's so big and tough?" "Dude, don't taunt the god-killing abomination."
More examples (1)
'Jerusalem overawes me' declared François-René, Vicomte de Chateaubriand, even though this 'deicidal city' was 'a heap of rubbish' with the 'confused monuments of a cemetery in the middle of a desert'.