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Uxoricide   Listen
noun
Uxoricide  n.  
1.
The murder of a wife by her husband.
2.
One who murders his wife.





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"Uxoricide" Quotes from Famous Books



... harrow your sensibilities by a complete and detailed recital of the nerve-racking adventures that immediately succeeded. I may only liken my state of mind to that so graphically described in the well-known and popular story of the uxoricide, Bluebeard, wherein it is told how the vigilant Anne stood on the outer ramparts straining her eyes in the direction whither succour might reasonably be expected to materialise, being deceived at least once by the dust cloud ...
— Fibble, D. D. • Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb


Words linked to "Uxoricide" :   murder, married man, husband, hubby, execution


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