father-slayer
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father-slayer
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From Middle English fadyr slaer, fadur sleer, equivalent to father + slayer.
noun father-slayers · fatherslayer · father slayer
- One who kills or murders one's father; a patricide Christy Mahon was the factor which destroyed the equilibrium of the lives of the Flaugherty's and Villagers, because he was an alleged fatherslayer.
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