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▪ I. uxoricide1|ʌkˈsɔərɪsaɪd|
[ad. mod.L. *ūxōricīd-a, f. L. ūxor wife: see -cide 1.]
One who murders his wife.
1860Worcester. 1889Macm. Mag. Jan. 237/2 Henry..the tyrant and uxoricide. 1894Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch 13 Oct. 6/5 To-day the uxoricide was arrested.
▪ II. uˈxoricide2
[ad. med.L. ūxōricīd-ium: see prec. and -cide 2.]
The murder of one's wife.
1854Fraser's Mag. xlix. 307 Such a detail of premeditated murders, suicides,..uxoricides, and fratricides. 1861Goldw. Smith Doctr. Hist. Progress 39 They can embrace..the butcherly vagrancy laws of a Tudor King, his brutal uxoricides, his persecutions. 1887Fortn. Rev. Nov. 659 Adultery, incest, uxoricide, usually by poison, prostitution, are terribly frequent [in Sicily].
Hence uˈxoricidal a., of, pertaining or tending to, uxoricide.
1891Cent. Dict. (citing Cornhill Mag.). |