Patricide

Here in Confucian Korea, where in a classroom gasps of horror are heard when I lead university students to figure out what the word "patricide" means, the idea that adult children have an "obligation to care for elderly parents" is simply a given, although it is sometimes transgressed. ❋ Unknown (2006)

SIR, -- The word "patricide" in your issue of this morning (telegrams) was an error. ❋ Albert Bigelow Paine (1899)

From matricide to patricide, as boring turncoat alien Ryan sneaks back on the ship to fetch his rapidly maturing hybrid daughter Amy, but is instead killed presumably when Amy wraps her own tail around dad's neck, revealing her allegiance to surrogate mommy Anna. ❋ Unknown (2011)

As open-minded as Clay seemed, I doubted that patricide was a basis for the two of them to be BFFs. ❋ Molly Harper (2011)

The book portrays a patricide in which each of the murdered man's sons share a varying degree of complicity. ❋ Jonathan Aquino (2009)

NATALIE: Rivals Alex and Jaden will be forced to work together on a mission to assassinate the privileged son of a foreign leader who's planning a patricide. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Thus, whilst it seems that Anthony Hamilton has been the primary mover in orchestrating Dennis's withdrawal, there remains a sense in which Lewis seems to have committed an act of professional patricide. ❋ Gordon McCabe (2009)

The condition that Lyle had produced is called patricide. ❋ M_francis (2009)

Halloween brought pure evil into our safe, suburban homes and Night put tons of taboos on the screen (necrophilia, patricide, matricide, racism, heresy, government corruption, etc) in a way that made the film haunting in a subconscious way. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Surrounded by a culture of violence, Jo Eekhoff, a licensed clinical social worker in Belen, N.M., where the most recent patricide took place, found herself deeply saddened by the situation. ❋ Judith Acosta (2010)

What a great idea for a book this is—what a record of filial loathing, sexual scheming, parental neglect, suicide, fratricide, matricide, patricide, infanticide, incest, and abuse . . . ❋ Annelise Freisenbruch (2010)

It is as though the scene of patricide, Oedipus's angry slaying of the stranger who is really his father, had never occurred. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But whatever was compelling about the song before seems more so after we are informed here that Mr. Morrison really did compose "The End," which builds to a screamed fantasy of patricide and maternal incest, "after a breakup with a girl he liked." ❋ Unknown (2010)

Like the edifice of Poe's imagination, the Walworth mansion had become, over the years, an emblem of decay and fallen glory, leaving behind echoes of insanity and patricide. ❋ Edward J. Renehan Jr. (2010)

My first impulse was to tell him he could have it now—and not just to stave off the impending patricide, but because my own first impressions were less favorable. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The police [suspect] the kid of patricide because both his parents were [murdered] and there was no other [suspects]. ❋ Nothingfacefan666 (2006)

the [young boy] [uriah] was patricidal because he [murdered] his parents. ❋ Jreaper (2007)

Oh my God [Dan]! Did you just [kill] your [dead dad]? That’s Re-Patricide! Run! ❋ Matthew.DouglasMD (2019)