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patricide

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The murderer of his father.

The crime of one who murders his father. Same as Parricide.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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I needed to temper (my dad's) enthusiasm a bit (about attending Princeton), and so I announced that I would be majoring in patricide...My mom was actually jealous. David Sedaris

However, 84% of the time, it was an adult who committed the matricide or patricide, not a child. Source: Internet

It’s a deeply unpleasant book, a literary patricide of who seems to be a deeply unpleasant author. Source: Internet

Tom shows signs of genuine humanity when dealing with a runaway young man (Frank Pierson, age 16) who has crossed the ocean in flight from patricide (after shoving his wheelchair bound, very wealthy, dear old dad off a cliff). Source: Internet

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