Citations:avunculicide

Noun quotations


 * 1866, James Payn (January 6, 1866). "Mirk Abbey." Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts 4 (106): 10.:
 * 'Yes,' cried my uncle; 'and I can hardly pull my weight; besides which, the training would kill me; so, if you persist in your refusal, Bob, you will be guilty of avunculicide.'


 * 1956, William A. Lessa (January-March, 1956). "Oedipus-Type Tales in Oceania." The Journal of American Folklore, 69 (271): 66.:
 * The idea of parricide should be defined elastically enough not only to include avunculicide but to make it optional whether the youth or his father takes the initiative in expressing the antagonism between them.


 * 1968,Vladimir Nabokov. King, Queen, Knave: a novel. New York: McGraw Hill. p. 138.:
 * In those days— which as a very old and very sick man, guilty of worse sins than avunculicide, he remembered with a grin of contempt— young Franz was oblivious to the corrosive probity of his pleasant daydreams about Dreyer's dropping dead.


 * 1984, Cathy N. Davidson. The Experimental Fictions of Ambrose Bierce: Structuring the Ineffable. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0803216662. pp. 58-59.:
 * At the same time, it is hard to take seriously the tall-tale grotesqueries whereby the accused matricide perpetrated an earlier, shall we say, avunculicide—the uncle, hamstrung and hung in a bag from a tree, was battered to death by a legendary fighting ram.




 * 1999, Dave Winter. Pakistan Handbook. Footprint Handbooks. ISBN 978-1900949378. p. 464.:
 * Continually fought over by the rulers of both Chitral and Gilgit, the history of the rulers of Yasin reads like a catalogue of patricide, fratricide, and avunculicide.