kinslayer

English

Etymology

From kin +‎ slayer.

Noun

kinslayer (plural kinslayers)

1. (rare, mostly in fantasy fiction) One who slays his or her own kin; a parricide.
   • 1978, Michael James Swanton, editor, 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.