Matricide
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Matricide is a noun meaning The killing of one's mother.
Meaning
The killing of one's mother.
More Meanings
- A person who kills his or her mother.
Example Sentences
Nancy was a matricide; it happened four years ago.
Gerald was imprisoned for matricide: he strangled his mother.
Here the interest was the more compelling because the case of Orestes was unique—not only because matricide was an almost unknown crime, but also because the gods themselves participate in an action in which the slain mother had herself slain the father of her son.
Word Forms
- matricides
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include parenticide, magistricide, filicide, sororicide, murdercide, familicide.
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