When the study of the classics had penetrated the nation with antique ideas of heroism, tyrannicide became a virtue.
Lorenzino paid the usual penalty of tyrannicide some years later.
It remains one of the most pregnant, bold, and brilliant pieces of writing which we possess in favour of tyrannicide from that epoch of insolent crime and audacious rhetoric.
Has not the reward of tyrannicide been paid before now to him who merely expelled a tyrant?
I implore you, gentlemen, to review my conduct from beginning to end, and see whether there has been any such omission on my part as to make my act appear less than tyrannicide in the eye of the law.
Among the Florentines, whenever they got rid of, or tried to get rid of, the Medici, tyrannicide was a practice universally accepted and approved.
Whether Tyrannicide is lawful or unlawful was a question on which different views were held by theologians.
In 1610 the general, Aquaviva, forbade any of his subjects to defend the teaching on Tyrannicide it contained.
Ambrogio, where they matured their plans, they laid their project of tyrannicide as a holy offering before the patron saint of Milan.
The esteem in which tyrannicide was held at Florence is proved by the erection of Donatello's Judith in 1495, at the gate of the Palazzo Pubblico, with this inscription, exemplum salutis publicæ cives posuere.
Very few indeed have those been, whose motive for tyrannicide was a pure love of their country's liberty; and these deserve the highest praise.
A medal in honor of Lorenzino's tyrannicide was struck with a profile copied from Michael Angelo's bust of Brutus.
Moreover, their written words accused them; for the tyrannicide of heretics was plainly advocated in their treatises on government.
Because I did not publish the Adams Tyrannicide pamphlet right off without inquiry or suggestion, I was freely charged with refusing to do it from fear.
Besides, I commenced to issue serial "Tyrannicide Literature," commencing with pamphlets written by Royalist advocates of assassination.
Preaching passive obedience to the king, he finds no check on him, either by tyrannicide or by constitutional magistrates, save only in the judgment of God.
The last of these, by the vindication of tyrannicide in his treatise De Rege, contributed to bring about a reaction in political literature.
For instance: Killing is not always murder: for tyrannicide is not murder, and yet it is undoubtedly killing.
No tyrannicide is murder; All tyrannicide is killing; Some killing is not murder.
That they preach atheism and tyrannicide I need not tell your Highness; but it is less generally known that they have made these infamous doctrines the cloak of private vices from which even paganism would have recoiled.
Odo had heard little of this execrated league, but that it was said to preach atheism, tyrannicide and the complete abolition of territorial rights; but this, being the report of the enemy, was to be received with a measure of doubt.
Tyrannicide he justifies in respect of an usurper who has no title except force, but not as to lawful princes, or such as have become so by prescription.
This was the usual curriculum for growing boys, and doubtless its observance induced that admiration of tyrannicide which marked the character of so many young Florentines.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tyrannicide" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
