Fratricide meaning

Noun: fratricide

Pronunciation: (fra-tri,sid)

Fratricide meaning:

• A person who murders their brother or sister.
• Fire that injures or kills an ally.
• The murder of your sibling.

Synonyms: murderer, man slayer.

Quotations: Jim Albaugh – On the positive side, we learned how important mobility and precision strike and global situation awareness and integrated command and control were. On the negative side, I think we also understand that fratricide or friendly fire continues to be an issue.

Jim Butcher – On the whole, we’re a murderous race. According to Genesis, it took as few as four people to make the planet too crowded to stand, and the first murder was a fratricide. Genesis says that in a fit of jealous rage, the very first child born to mortal parents, Cain, snapped and popped the first metaphorical cap in another human being. The attack was a bloody, brutal, violent, reprehensible killing. Cain’s brother Abel probably never saw it coming. As I opened the door to my apartment, I was filled with a sense of empathetic sympathy and intuitive understanding. For freaking Cain.

Louis De Bernières – History has no beginnings, for everything that happens becomes the cause or pretext for what occurs afterwards, and this chain of cause and pretext stretches back to the Paleolithic age, when the first Cain of one tribe murdered the first Abel of another. All war is fratricide, and there is therefore an infinite chain of blame that winds its circuitous route back and forth across the path and under the feet of every people and every nation, so that a people who are the victims of one time become the victims a generation later, and newly liberated nations resort immediately to the means of their former oppressors. The triple contagions of nationalism, Utopianism and religious absolutism effervesce together into an acid that corrodes the moral metal of a race, and it shamelessly and even proudly performs deeds that it would deem vile if they were done by any other.

Marie Browne – Have you ever listened to folk music? Let’s face it, a lot of folk music is all about dead sailors, mad witches, rape and fratricide.

Sample sentences:

1. All aircraft must coordinate ordnance fans to avoid fratricide.
2. Fratricide incident occurred in 1994 during Operation Provide Comfort, which intended to protect certain Kurdish areas in Northern Iraq.
3. Granted that every war is madness – civil war, fratricide, is the worst of all; it reaches deeper into ugliness, cruelty and absurdity.
4. God did not create man in his own image. Evidently, it was quite the other way about, which is the painless explanation for the profusion of gods and religions, and the fratricide both between and among faiths, that we see all about us and that has so retarded the development of civilization.
5. Let me end with an explanation of why I believe the move into space to be a human imperative. It seems to me obvious in too many ways to need listing that we cannot much longer depend upon our planet’s relatively fragile ecosystem to handle the realities of the human tomorrow. Unless we turn human growth and energy toward the challenges and promises of space, our only other choice may be the awful risk, currently demonstrable, of stumbling into a cycle of fratricide and regression which could end all chances of our evolving further or of even surviving.