Definition of "murther" [mur•ther]

• Obsolete Variant of murder. (noun)

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• "With which answer the king was so pacified, that he indeuored by pretending his fauor towards the sonne, to extenuat the tyrannicall murther of the father."
• "Separately but in the same session, the Security Council voted to kill King Claudius of Denmark, approving, with the Danish government's consent, the use of an unmanned aerial drone to strike at the usurping monarch and avenge our sweet father's murther with the native hue of resolution."
• "But influence it was not: "Feckin 'murther more like," Paddy said to Liam, out of Hanrahan's hearing, of course."