Definitions
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- noun The act of killing one's spouse, especially the murder of a husband by his wife.
- noun A woman who has killed her husband.
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- noun the murder of a husband by his wife
Etymologies
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From Latin maritus ("married", "husband") + -cide, from caedere ("to kill")
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Examples
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Aeschylus’s trilogy of tragedies tells of Clytemnestra’s mariticide of Agamemmnon, and of Orestes’s matricide of Clytemnestra, presenting these as torturae for the tragic protagonists — revenges that “must happen” and killings of kin that “must not happen”.
Notes Toward a Theory of Narrative Modality Hal Duncan 2009
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Aeschylus’s trilogy of tragedies tells of Clytemnestra’s mariticide of Agamemmnon, and of Orestes’s matricide of Clytemnestra, presenting these as torturae for the tragic protagonists — revenges that “must happen” and killings of kin that “must not happen”.
Archive 2009-06-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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