magnicide means the assassination of a major political figure. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 85 out of 100.
Why “magnicide” is a great word
MAGNICIDE — [Noun] The deliberate killing of a major political figure of the highest national or international prominence. From the Latin magnus ("great, important") + -cide (a suffix denoting killing or killer). Unlike regicide, which targets a crowned monarch, or assassination, a broader term for politically motivated murder, magnicide names the seismic strike against a figure who embodies a nation's order. It is the crack of the rifle in a motorcade, the silent poison in a summit's toast, the explosive conclusion in a theater box—a word that marks the precise point where a single death ends and a nation's narrative is punctured by an irreparable fact.
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- The assassination of a major political figure.