Definition of "liberticide" in English

adjective

1. Causing the destruction of liberty; oppressive, liberticidal

   • […] by aſſembling at her houſe, in ſecret council, the principal chiefs of that conſpiracy, and by keeping up a correſpondence tending to facilitate their liberticide deſigns.
   • The conservative body you propose might be so constituted, as, while it would be an admirable sedative in a variety of smaller cases, might also be a valuable sentinel and check on the liberticide views of an ambitious individual.
   • M. Labriffe is a member of the Chamber of Deputies, and has, of course, voted for the liberticide laws.

noun

1. The destruction of liberty.

   • All that has been done by the state since the revolt of May is liberticide of the most violent character.
   • In the hands of a designing executive, a standing army was the classic instrument of liberticide.
   • In language and logic we are the prisoners of our premises, just as in politics and law we are prisoners of our rules. Hence we had better pick them well. For if suicide is an illness because it terminates in death, and if the prevention of death by any means necessary is the physician’s therapeutic mandate, then the proper remedy for suicide is liberticide.

2. One who causes the destruction of liberty.