| 单词 | woman-slaughter |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswoman-slaughter woman-slaughter n. colloquial the murder or killing of a woman; manslaughter (manslaughter n. 1) involving a female victim.Chiefly used as a conscious and sometimes humorous alternative to manslaughter. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > killing of type of person > [noun] > of woman woman-slaughter1639 femicide1801 feminicide1831 1639 J. Taylor Divers Crabtree Lect. 82 Least there should be man-slaughter, or woman-slaughter committed. 1720 T. Gordon Humourist I. 169 But only be deem'd Woman-slaughter. 1844 J. T. J. Hewlett Parsons & Widows I. ix. 191 They had never heard of a verdict of woman-slaughter in their lives. 1912 C. W. Saleeby Surg. & Society xiii. 312 There is plenty of woman-slaughter to be recorded, still committed by doctors and nurses alike to whom the names Lister and Nightingale are nothing. 1995 P. T. Deutermann Official Privilege (1996) lvii. 447 The Hardin girl was murdered, dummy. No it wasn't—that was manslaughter. Woman-slaughter, to be politically correct. < as lemmas |
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