papacide

English

Etymology

From papa- +‎ -cide.

Noun

papacide (countable and uncountable, plural papacides)

  1. Alternative form of papicide.
    • 2000, Margaret Lavinia Anderson, “Jesuit Phobia and the Mobilization of the Priests”, in Practicing Democracy: Elections and Political Culture in Imperial Germany, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, part II (Fields of Force), chapter 4 (Black Magic I: The First Mobilization), page 95:
      Popular novels advertised the order’s depravity, booking conspiracies, wars, even papacide to the Jesuit account.
    • 2005 winter, Joseph M. Parent, “Machiavelli’s Missing Romulus and the Murderous Intent of The Prince”, in History of Political Thought, volume XXVI, number 4, Exeter, Devon: Imprint Academic, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 636:
      With regard to strategic surprise, although it is unclear who the actual readership of The Prince was, overtly suggesting papacide would increase the chances that Lorenzo would be exposed and suffer the same fate as Porcari.
    • 2015, Paul L. Williams, “The Shooting in St. Peter’s Square”, in Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance between the Vatican, the CIA, and the Mafia, Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, →ISBN, page 210:
      Within Munich Ağca and Çatli were joined by Oral Çelik, a fellow Grey Wolf who would take part in the attempted papacide.
    • 2015, Ryan Rashotte, “Two Foul Score of the Brothers Almada”, in Narco Cinema: Sex, Drugs, and Banda Music in Mexico’s B-Filmography, New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 72:
      There are psychopaths, papacides, scamping vampires (“scampires”?), droopy boom mics, narcoleptic background extras who engage the camera in impromptu staring contests.
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