"principicide" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1868, Frederic R. Lees, “The Sermon in Relation to Facts”, in True versus False: Bible-Temperance: An Analysis of Vicar Jeffcock’s Sermon on “The Temperance Movement and Christian Liberty.”, London: Pitman, […]. Warwick Savage, […]; Dawson, […]; Wilbraham, […]; G. Turner, […], page 15",
          "text": "As it was not the ‘bullet,’ or the ‘pistol,’ or the ‘powder,’ that animated the Principicide, so it is not the ‘sumptuous dinner’—not the fish, flesh, fowl, and good plum-pudding, that tends to increase the appetite for them.",
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          "text": "The chances of immediate escape for a principicide must be taken as very small.",
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          "ref": "1919, Eugene Pivany, “Appendix B. Roumania’s Territorial Claims. [From a treatise entitled “Roumania in Hungary,” by Eugene Pivany.]”, in Treaty of Peace with Germany: Extracts from Hearing Before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate; Sixty-Sixth Congress, First Session, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, page 989",
          "text": "The Roumanians hold the world record for principicide, or the assassination of princes, with Serbia—whose record in this regard is not to be despised, either—a bad second.",
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          "ref": "1997, Julian Bennett, Optimus Princeps: A Life and Times, Bloomington, Ind, Indianapolis, Ind.: Indiana University Press, page 36",
          "text": "Both of these stories, that he was exiled or placed in terror of his life, belong to a recognized genre invented to justify the principicide and yet continue the imperial system.",
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          "ref": "2005, M. J. Trow, Maxwell’s Mask, Long Preston, North Yorkshire, England: Magna Large Print Books, published 2008, page 29",
          "text": "It was a terrible, but all too excusable crime, principicide.",
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          "note": "of a sovereign prince",
          "sense": "the killing of a prince",
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          "text": "As it was not the ‘bullet,’ or the ‘pistol,’ or the ‘powder,’ that animated the Principicide, so it is not the ‘sumptuous dinner’—not the fish, flesh, fowl, and good plum-pudding, that tends to increase the appetite for them.",
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