kinslayer
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Etymology edit
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kinslayer (plural kinslayers)
- (rare, mostly in fantasy fiction) One who slays his or her own kin; a parricide.
- 1978, Michael James Swanton, editor, Beowulf:
- Associated by the poet with Cain, primordial kinslayer and therefore symbol of elemental social disunity, he stalks abroad, ravaging only by night...
- 1982, Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon:
- I would not invoke the curse of a kinslayer.