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Kingslayer vs Kinslayer - What's the difference?

kingslayer | kinslayer |

As nouns the difference between kingslayer and kinslayer

is that kingslayer is one who kills a king while kinslayer is one who slays his or her own kin; a parricide.

kingslayer

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (mostly, fantasy) One who kills a king.

    • Synonyms

    * regicide

    Related terms

    * regicidal * infanticide * fratricide * suicide * royal assassin * -cide

    kinslayer

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rare, mostly in fantasy fiction) One who slays his or her own kin; a parricide.
  • * 1978 , Michael James Swanton (ed.), Beowulf
    • Associated by the poet with Cain, primordial kinslayer and therefore symbol of elemental social disunity, he stalks abroad, ravaging only by night...
  • * 1982 , Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon
    • I would not invoke the curse of a kinslayer .