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单词 mariticidal
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mariticidaladj.

Brit. /məˈrɪtᵻˌsʌɪdl/, U.S. /məˈrɪdəˌsaɪdəl/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin marītus , -icidal suffix.
Etymology: < classical Latin marītus husband (see marry v.) + -icidal suffix. Compare post-classical Latin mariticida killing of one's husband (first half of the 16th cent. in a Belgian text).
rare.
Husband-killing.
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the world > life > death > killing > killing of type of person > [adjective] > of husband
mariticidal1819
1819 H. Busk Vestriad iv. 500 Near each the steel mariticidal bleeds.
1821 New Monthly Mag. 2 392 The mariticidal mother.
1882 Brooklyn Daily Eagle 25 Aug. 2/3 The fashion of poisoning husbands..is a mania susceptible of..radical cure... We fear that these victims of mariticidal mania must be sacrificed to save surviving hubands.
1994 Germanic Rev. 69 26 The modern re-visions of Klytemnestra exemplify women writers rejecting the limits of gender prescriptions and exploring the varied potentials of female identity—both maternal and mariticidal.
2001 Jrnl. Clinical Psychol. 57 368 A recent study..found that filicidal, mariticidal, and homicidal women defendants did differ on a number of..characteristics.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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