[a. F. liberticide (recorded only as adj.; used by Babœuf, a. 1797), f. liberté LIBERTY + -cide, -CIDE 1.] A. sb. A ‘killer’ or destroyer of liberty.
1795. Southey, Maid of Orleans, II. 328. Cæsar … the great liberticide.
1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev., III. II. ii. What if he should prove too prosperous, and become Liberticide, Murderer of Freedom!
1863. Scotsman, 28 March. (Kinglake’s Crimea), He abhors Louis Napoleon … because he sees in him a liberticide.
1895. Ouida, in Contemp. Rev., Aug., 241. He was, in his prime, a regicide; he is, in his old age, a liberticide.
B. adj. Destructive of liberty.
1793. A. Young, Example France (ed. 3), 60, note. Spare not the liberticide members, who vote in favour of Louis.
1817. Bentham, Parl. Ref. Catech. (1818), 122. As to the tongue, under one of the late liberticide Acts, two London Aldermen … have sufficed to put an end to all public use of that instrument.
1819. Shelley, in Dowden, Shelley (1886), II. vii. 294. Two liberticide wars undertaken by the privileged classes of the country.
1842. Blackw. Mag., LII. 431. The most violent, haughty, and liberticide of all despotisms.
