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matricide /ˈmatrɪsʌɪd / /ˈmeɪtrɪsʌɪd/noun [mass noun]1The killing of one’s mother: a man suspected of matricide...- I can even, to a lesser degree, comprehend stalkers, serial killers, matricide, fratricide, genocide.
- He is at pains to point out that, rather than committing the usual matricide / patricide so common in the intellectual sphere, his paper augments my interpretation, superimposing one interpretation over the other.
- Her mother, Clytemnestra, has been driven mad by dreams of her own death at the hands of her son, Orestes, who accomplishes that matricide as revenge for his mother's murder of his father, Agamemnon.
1.1 [count noun] A person who kills their mother.The would-be matricide, by the way, will not be charged and social services are dealing with the matter....- We get little real sense of the inner torment suffered by the matricide Orestes and his sister-accomplice Electra, who, like Hamlet, have been handed the task of committing murder to avenge their father and restore order.
OriginLate 16th century: from Latin matricidium, from mater, matr- 'mother' + -cidium (see -cide). Rhymesfratricide, patricide |