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fratricide

Noun

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The act of one who murders or kills his own brother.

One who murders or kills his own brother.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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But for those who lived in non-Christian lands, it was decreed that the work of conversion was an imperative. It is, in a sense, a pity that this work will always be remembered for its association either with conquest, with religious fratricide or with imperialism. Christopher Hitchens

That's why the peoples have to die -- so that the Jew can live. He drives the peoples to war to make a profit from the fratricide of the white race. In the World War 11 million gentiles had to die. The Jew was the winner. Julius Streicher

Now, here is Jesus' point: he is not only the culmination of the project, but the project itself, God made brother, offering us to become siblings, but vulnerable to fratricide. James Alison

The self-preservation instinct of the nation must be heard. Adventurists must have their hands tied before they push the homeland into the abyss of fratricide. Wojciech Jaruzelski

All human paternity comes internally structured by fratricide and, as paternity, is incapable of truth, because it will always be protecting itself against the 'other'. James Alison

Adam is said to be perfect until he recognizes either his sin or Cain's fratricide that is the cause of bringing death into the world. Source: Internet

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