mundicidal

English

Etymology

From mundicide +‎ -al.

Adjective

mundicidal

  1. World-killing; world-destroying.
    • 1834, George Hume Weatherhead, A Pedestrian Tour Through France and Italy, page 355:
      Even Werner, mundicidal as his doctrine is, would have paused ere he drowned the world so often, to account for what no other portion of the neighbouring country could assist him in sustaining.
    • 2008 November 25, Michael Reaves, Steve Perry, Death Star: Star Wars Legends, Random House Worlds, →ISBN, page 17:
      In order to mount a weapon of mundicidal means, shielding capabilities would have to be downgraded to a rudimentary level. Power, Bevel had said, was not infinite, even on a station this size, fueled by the largest hypermatter reactor ever built.
    • 2015 October 15, Tak tse Profit, Etiam Tu:: Eradicating Hatred, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:
      Etiam Tu's goal is not only to eradicate the Hate that could fuel these mundicidal attitudes, but also remove those issues that motivate the mentally unstable, Hate filled monsters to exists at all.
    • 2017 March 14, Cixin Liu, The Three-Body Problem Series: The Three-Body Problem, The Dark Forest, Death's End, Tor Books, →ISBN:
      Luo Ji slowly came to be seen as an irrational monster and a mundicidal despot.
    • 2024 October 17, Christine Quigley, Death Dictionary: Over 5,500 Clinical, Legal, Literary and Vernacular Terms, McFarland, →ISBN, page 3:
      We now must fear [...] the mundicidal maniac.
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