mariticide
Jan. 12th, 2009 07:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
prettygoodwordTheme Week: killers!
mariticide - n., the killing of one's spouse.
Not to be confused with matricide, killing one's mother. This is the closest we get to having a word for killing one's husband. There's one for wife (uxoricide) but not specifically husband, go fig.
---L.
mariticide - n., the killing of one's spouse.
Not to be confused with matricide, killing one's mother. This is the closest we get to having a word for killing one's husband. There's one for wife (uxoricide) but not specifically husband, go fig.
---L.
