Definitions
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- noun The murder of an entire family by a family member.
- noun The murder of an entire family by a family member, followed by suicide.
- noun The person who perpetrates a familicide.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Psychologists, sociologists and criminologists can only provide general descriptions of personality traits that often emerge in cases of what is called familicide or family annihilation.
unknown title 2009
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Every day, another 'familicide', as they're calling them.
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Every day, another 'familicide', as they're calling them.
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A separate group of researchers is currently compiling the results of a 10-year study on familicide that has unsettling implications.
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You know, there ` s even a name for it now, familicide (ph), that ` s when a spouse and children are killed or a group of close relatives are wiped out all at once just as happened in this case.
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Although familicide is rare, the Parente case nonetheless sheds light on another hard truth.
unknown title 2009
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Proprietariness tidily explains the relatively high representation of women among filicide-suicides as compared to familicide-suicides and spousal homicide-suicides; women would be expected to feel proprietary toward their children, but much less so toward their husbands.
Mental Nurse 2009
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Proprietariness is the explanation that Daly & Wilson [7] propose to explain the enormous overrepresentation of men as perpetrators of spousal homicide-suicide and familicide-suicide as compared to women.
Mental Nurse 2009
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MICHAEL WELNER, MD. FORENSIC PSYCHIATRIST: It's called familicide.
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"But the warning sign is when these familicide cases begin to cluster.
unknown title 2009
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