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parricide

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Properly, one who murders one's own father; in a wider sense, one who murders one's father or mother or any ancestor.

The act or crime of murdering one's own father or any ancestor.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Above the punitive city hangs this iron spider; and the criminal who is to be thus crucified by the new law is parricide. Michel Foucault

As someone very sagely said during the parricide trials of the Menendez Brothers: anytime your kids kill you, you are at least partly to blame. Elizabeth Wurtzel

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