filicide
noun
fil·i·cide
| \ ˈfi-lə-ˌsīd
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Definition of filicide
: the murder of one's own daughter or son
Examples of filicide in a Sentence
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For committing genocide and multiple attempts of filicide. — Maia Efrem, refinery29.com, "The Movies That Get Fatherhood All Wrong — & The Ones That Get It Right," 15 June 2019 At a meeting with factory workers in 2017, Putin himself stoked doubts about the tsar’s filicide, suggesting that a papal envoy spread the rumor hoping to convert Russia to Catholicism. — Noah Sneider, Harper's magazine, "Slash Fictions," 10 May 2019 Yet Western culture has been haunted for millennia by the wretched House of Atreus – cursed through the generations with fratricide, patricide, filicide, mariticide, and matricide. — Steven G. Kellman, The Christian Science Monitor, "'House of Names' is Colm Tóibín's take on the House of Atreus," 9 June 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'filicide.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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