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Definition of Filicides
1. filicide [n] - See also: filicide
Lexicographical Neighbors of Filicides
Literary usage of Filicides
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1802)
"... which had acquired fame by the number of religious filicides. ... filicides
alleged in their ..."
2. The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine (1804)
"... told me that, within the lali ten months, there had been a hundred and
ninety-three filicides in 'the departments, and about the faino number in the ..."
3. The Spirit of the Public Journals: Being an Impartial Selection of the Most by Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott (1807)
"I muft not forget to notice that portion of fair filicides, ... I am informed,
that every year produces its quota of female filicides, ..."
4. A Full Inquiry Into the Subject of Suicide: To which are Added (as Being by Charles Moore (1790)
"He then enumerates a lilt of filicides to avoid ... Montagne alfo notices the
virgin-filicides " Pelagia and ..."
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