Mariticide

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Not to be confused with Matricide.

Mariticide (from Latin maritus "married" + -cide, from caedere "to cut, to kill") literally means the murder of one's married partner, but has become most associated with the murder of a husband by his wife, as the reverse is given the name uxoricide.

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• Uxoricide, the practice of killing one's wife

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