kinslayer

noun

kinslayer

noun

Etymology From kin + slayer.

1

Rare, In fantasy fiction One who slays his or her own kin; a parricide.

  • Associated by the poet with Cain, primordial kinslayer and therefore symbol of elemental social disunity, he stalks abroad, ravaging only by night...1978, Michael James Swanton, editor, Beowulf:
  • I would not invoke the curse of a kinslayer.1982, Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon:

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