Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The killing of a wife by her husband.
- n. A man who kills his wife.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who slays his wife.
- n. The killing of a wife by her husband.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The murder of a wife by her husband.
- n. One who murders his wife.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the murder of a wife by her husband
- n. a husband who murders his wife
Etymologies
- From Latin uxor + -cide (Wiktionary)
- Medieval Latin uxōricīdium : Latin uxor, wife + Latin -cīdium, -cide. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“This haste was rather forced on the story because the centrepiece of the episode was to be the trial of Bates the valet, on charges of uxoricide, and, though the series has not always been a stickler for historical accuracy, most viewers would have known that the courts knock off over the holidays.”
“In the archival materials available, uxoricide is not a fantasy but a real part of Italian Jewish life.”
“Killing the owner of the uterus that is your only current chance to get your genes into the next generation the evolutionary imperative, especially if she is caring for your current children and has a father or brothers who take exception to your uxoricide, is an excellent way to a dead end personally and genealogically.”
“D. 160, brought an action of uxoricide against Herodes, but failed to prove his case.”
“Bangalore: An undertrial accused of uxoricide allegedly committed suicide in the Parappana Agrahara central jail on Wednesday night.”
“Bangalore: A man was arrested for the November 2009 murder of his second wife, police said, adding that the accused committed uxoricide in a fit of rage after the woman had resisted his attempts for a physical relationship.”
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“I may only liken my state of mind to that so graphically described in the well-known and popular story of the uxoricide, Bluebeard, wherein it is told how the vigilant Anne stood on the outer ramparts straining her eyes in the direction whither succour might reasonably be expected to materialise, being deceived at least once by the dust cloud created by a flock of sheep, and tortured meantime by the melancholy accents of her sister, the present wife of the monster, who continually entreated to be told whether she, Anne, saw any one coming.”
“So Jaded "> So Jaded said: At this point, really, anything could have happened, from stranger abduction to walkout to uxoricide ...”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘uxoricide’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
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uakari, uberous, uberty, ubication, ubiety, ubique, ubiquitarianism, ubity, ucalegon, udal, udometer, ufology and 175 more...
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Dirty Deeds, Acts & Villainous Arcana
Villains, evildoers, and the wonderful words to describe them.
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Perponyms
List of words referent to persons who commit specific crimes, or are suspected of committing those crimes, beginning with arsonist and safecracker.
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Precise words to describe murder
Suicide, infanticide, fraticide, you name it.
homocide, filicide, infanticide, parricide, matricide, patricide, suicide, spermicide, fratricide, regicide, uxoricide, vatricide and 10 more...
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-cide words
aborticide to weedicide
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All The Words
I enjoy collecting words, for I have no fear of them ever running out.
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summer words 2009
how many words can I make mine this summer?
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anshukk's list
mephistophilies, blitzkrieg, protagonist, antagonize, perpetual, basilisk, claustrophobia, dihydrogenoxide, uxoricide
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vorpal's Words
parabiosis, penumbra, defenestrate, portmanteau, sturm und drang, perspicacious, quixotic, copacetic, obfuscate, inveigle, shadenfreude, cloister and 349 more...
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The Collection
A somewhat discriminatory list of words and phrases collected for their euphonic or arcane appeal, interesting etymology, or concise definition of an otherwise unnamed phenomenon or concept.
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Recently learned words that I like.
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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
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Tweets
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chained_bear One who murders his wife; or, the murder of one's wife. Oct 8, 2007