Crossword-Solution: UXORICIDE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Uxoricide | n. | The murder of a wife by her husband. |
| Uxoricide | n. | One who murders his wife. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “UXORICIDE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| A man who kills his wife | 1 answer |
| act of killing one's wife | 1 answer |
| wife killing | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with UXORICIDE (5)
Thus, the virtue of piety is violated when the victim is a person to whom the slayer owed special respect and devotedness, as in parricide, regicide, fratricide, uxoricide; the virtue of religion is offended when murder is committed in a church.
Our civic morality seems to have attained its extreme altitude in having sanctioned the inviolability of human life; and the present-day struggle against the death penalty, against war, against revolutions, against uxoricide, in the case of adultery, and against duelling, shows us the triumph of a new and loftier conception of humanity in the upward progress of man.
The spider, it must be owned, stands almost, if not altogether, alone in the commission of this crime of uxoricide.
Thus, patricide, uxoricide, fratricide, witchcraft, sorcery, counterfeiting, theft, sacrilege, rape, arson, repeated homicide, etc., came to be included in the exceptional cases, and the only privileges extended in them to nobles were that they should not be subjected to “plebeian” tortures.[1657] As early as 1514, I find an instance which shows how little advantage these prerogatives afforded in practice.
The domestic economy, for example, gives rise to different crimes in which no economic factor comes into play; as uxoricide, for example.