Word of the day - 4th of July edition

The Wordnik Word of the Day for July 4, 2011 is

liberticide
http://www.wordnik.com/words/liberticide

(noun) Destruction of liberty.
(noun) A destroyer of liberty.

'Liberticide' comes from the Latin 'liber,' free, plus the Latin 'cida,' cutter, killer, slayer.

 

Example:
"These transactions, now recollected but as dreams of the night, were then sad realities; and nothing rescued us from their liberticide effect, but the unyielding opposition of those firm sRead More...