uxoriciden.1
/ʌkˈsɔːrᵻsʌɪd/, U.S. /ˌəkˈzɔrəˌsaɪd/, /ˌəkˈsɔrəˌsaɪd/ One who murders his wife.
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the world > life > death > killing > killer for specific reason or type of person > [noun] > of wife
Bluebeard1795
uxoricide1860
1860 J. E. Worcester Dict. Eng. Lang.
1889 Macmillan's Mag. Jan. 237/2 Henry..the tyrant and uxoricide.
1894 Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch 13 Oct. 6/5 To-day the uxoricide was arrested.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
uxoriciden.2
/ʌkˈsɔːrᵻsʌɪd/, U.S. /ˌəkˈzɔrəˌsaɪd/, /ˌəkˈsɔrəˌsaɪd/ The murder of one's wife.
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the world > life > death > killing > killing of type of person > [noun] > of wife
uxoricide1854
1854 Fraser's Mag. xlix. 307 Such a detail of premeditated murders, suicides,..uxoricides, and fratricides.
1861 G. Smith Doctr. Hist. Progress 39 They can embrace..the butcherly vagrancy laws of a Tudor King, his brutal uxoricides, his persecutions.
1887 Fortn. Rev. Nov. 659 Adultery, incest, uxoricide, usually by poison, prostitution, are terribly frequent [in Sicily].
Derivatives
uˈxoricidal adj. of, pertaining or tending to, uxoricide.
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the world > life > death > killing > killing of type of person > [adjective] > of wife
uxoricidal1891
1891 Cent. Dict. (citing Cornhill Mag. ).
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