juridicide means the killing or destruction of law, of the rule of law or of administration of justice. It carries an Arena rating of 1534, earned across 108 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, juridicide ranks #33 of 17,138 for Most Incisive Words, #676 of 17,151 for The Improbable, #853 of 17,131 for Scariest Words, #1,746 of 17,124 for Most Sublime Words.
Why “juridicide” is a great word
JURIDICIDE — [Noun] The deliberate killing or destruction of the law, the rule of law, or the administration of justice. From juridic (relating to law or the administration of justice) + -icide (a suffix meaning "killer" or "act of killing"). Unlike "anomie" (which describes a passive drift into normlessness) or "regicide" (which is the specific killing of a monarch), juridicide is the systematic, abstract murder of the legal framework itself. It is the courthouse hollowed into a barracks, the judge's gavel repurposed as firewood, and the legal code shredded before a public that has forgotten how to read it—the quiet, administrative end of the very grammar by which a society understands itself.
Etymology
From jurid(ic) + -icide.
noun
- The killing or destruction of law, of the rule of law or of administration of justice.e.g.“[…] enabling a type of juridicide that exempts those responsible for the torture perpetrated in the CIA's secret prisons from open and transparent processes of juridical accountability.” — 2015 October 14, Cristyn Davies, Sara L. Knox, Cultural Studies of Law, Routledge, →ISBN, page 86:
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