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Webster 1913 Edition
Sororicide
So-ror′i-cide
(?; 277)
, Noun.
[L.
sororocida
, and sororicidium
; soror
a sister + caedere
to kill.] The murder of one’s sister; also, one who murders or kills one's own sister.
Johnson.
Webster 1828 Edition
Sororicide
SOROR'ICIDE
,Noun.
Definition 2024
sororicide
sororicide
English
Noun
sororicide (plural sororicides)
- The killing of one's sister.
- 2014, Albert Lee Strickland, “Familicide”, in Michael John Brennan, editor, The A–Z of Death and Dying: Social, Medical, and Cultural Aspects, Santa Barbara, Calif.: Greenwood Publishing Group, ISBN 978-1-4408-0344-4, pages 205–206:
- Terms related to familicide include filicide (the killing of one's child or children), uxoricide (the killing of one's wife), fratricide or sororicide (the killing of one's brother or sister), avunculicide (the killing of one's uncle), and nepoticide (the killing of one's nephew).
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- A person who kills his or her sister.
Derived terms
Related terms
- (killing of brother): fratricide
Translations
killing of ones sister
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sister killer
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