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Definition of Filicide
1. Noun. A parent who murders his own son or daughter.
2. Noun. The murder of your own son or daughter.
Definition of Filicide
1. n. The act of murdering a son or a daughter; also, parent who commits such a murder.
Definition of Filicide
1. Noun. A person who kills his or her own son, or more generally, child. ¹
2. Noun. The killing of one's own child. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Filicide
1. the killing of one's child [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Filicide
Literary usage of Filicide
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Letters of Junius.. by Junius (1770)
"To alienate even our own rights, would be a crime as much more enormous than
filicide, as •a life of civil ..."
2. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies ...by James Boswell by James Boswell (1791)
"... by fome readers to recommend filicide, the words being, " To die is the fate
of man; ... to favour filicide; we are requeued to print the whole ..."
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