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matricide

/ma-tri-sahyd, mey-/US // ˈmæ trɪˌsaɪd, ˈmeɪ- //UK // (ˈmætrɪˌsaɪd, ˈmeɪ-) //

弑母,弑母行为,弑母罪,弑母事件

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of killing one's mother.
    • : a person who kills his or her mother.

Examples

  • If I had put “Matricide” on the Internet right after I had finished it, you would not be interviewing me right now.

  • He had to pass sentence of death upon an atrocious scoundrel convicted of matricide.

  • When Seneca sanctioned, and then defended on political grounds, the matricide of Nero, from that moment his own doom was sealed.

  • It must be confessed that a great deal of the peculiar guilt of matricide evaporates in the process of explanation.

  • Woman is invulnerable; matricide is deemed the most dreadful crime that calls upon all men for vengeance.

  • Nero's matricide was not a crime, in so far as it was a positive outward act.