Meaning of Uxoricide | Babel Free

Definitions

1. One who murders one's wife.
2. The murdering of one's own wife.
   countable, uncountable

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“Terms related to familicide include⟳ filicide (the killing of one's child or children), uxoricide (the killing of one's wife), fratricide or sororicide (the killing of one's brother or sister), avunculicide (the killing of one's uncle), and nepoticide (the killing of one's nephew).”

“In order⟳ for someone to green-light a movie of this story, they’d need⟳ to have⟳ at least background knowledge of the sexual shenanigans of Sartre and Beauvoir, and of Althusser’s uxoricide – though not necessarily a close⟳ acquaintance with their published work⟳.”

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