Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The killing of one's son or one's daughter.
- noun One who kills his or her son or daughter.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of murdering a son or a daughter; also, parent who commits such a murder.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who kills his or her own
son , or more generally,child . - noun The killing of one's own child.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the murder of your own son or daughter
- noun a parent who murders his own son or daughter
Etymologies
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Examples
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And there ` s something called filicide which discusses a parent killing a child.
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When a parent also takes his or her own life, the phenomenon is called filicide-suicide.
Madison.com - top 2008
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And in fact, there are statistics that show about 200 mothers engage in this filicide which is what we call murdering of the child.
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But mothers, too, commit "filicide" for all kinds of motives dark and strange or sometimes banal.
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REID: No, it wasn't this kind of filicide or mother killing her children.
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At times, these internal or external stimuli affecting an animal's instinctive impulses result in cases of animal "filicide," "cannibalism" and "homosexuality."
THE MEDICAL NEWS Ileonna Matthews 2010
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At times, these internal or external stimuli affecting an animal's instinctive impulses result in cases of animal "filicide," "cannibalism" and "homosexuality."
THE MEDICAL NEWS John Lennon 2010
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At times, these internal or external stimuli affecting an animal's instinctive impulses result in cases of animal "filicide," "cannibalism" and "homosexuality."
THE MEDICAL NEWS Zeigeist2012 2009
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At times, these internal or external stimuli affecting an animal's instinctive impulses result in cases of animal "filicide," "cannibalism" and "homosexuality."
THE MEDICAL NEWS 2009
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Befides y to murder one's own reputation, is a kind of filicide,
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