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Definition of sororicide in English: sororicidenoun səˈrɒrɪsʌɪd mass noun1The killing of one's sister. Example sentencesExamples - "She makes me so angry," said the victim of an attempted sororicide.
- While it may be tempting to blame these killings on some extreme form of sibling rivalry, most cases of fratricide or sororicide defy such a simplistic explanation.
- The most serious form of sibling abuse is fratricide and sororicide.
- Freud seems to have been deaf to the importance in myth of both sororicide and fratricide.
- Alonso eloquently regrets the sororicide and uxoricide he committed before he is beheaded.
Synonyms killing, homicide, assassination, liquidation, extermination, execution, slaughter, butchery, massacre - 1.1count noun A person who kills their sister.
Example sentencesExamples - My error was demonstrated to me in black and white: the sororicide had to be acquitted.
- The King is at first inclined to agree with this principle and to mete out to the sororicide the punishment he deserves.
- Anna is barely sane; and Helen is a sororicide.
- Roman historians tend to present the sororicide in a positive light, stressing Horatia's father's public vindication of his son.
- Intending sororicides will do well to get this formula fastened in their memories.
Origin Mid 17th century (denoting a person who kills their sister, derived from Latin sororicida): the primary current sense comes from late Latin sororicidium, from soror 'sister' + -cidium (see -cide). |