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sororicide

[ suh-rawr-uh-sahyd, -ror- ]

noun

  1. the act of killing one's own sister.
  2. a person who kills their sister.


sororicide

/ əˈɒɪˌɪ /

noun

  1. the act of killing one's own sister
  2. a person who kills his or her sister
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˌǰˈ岹, adjective
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Other yvlog Forms

  • ·ǰi·a adjective
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of sororicide1

First recorded in 1650–60; from Latin ǰōī岹 “one who kills his sister,” -ī徱ܳ “the act of killing one's sister,” equivalent to ǰō- (stem of soror ) sister + -cīda, -ī徱ܳ -cide
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of sororicide1

C17: from Latin ǰōī岹 one who murders his sister, from soror sister + caedere to slay
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Example Sentences

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There was additional shrapnel because, coming from a fellow New Yorker writer, this was the most brazen act of sororicide since Goneril poisoned Regan in “King Lear.”

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Latitude's fertile mix of different musics, different ways of telling stories through poetry, dance, literature as well as song, resonates with the fundamentals of Bow Down – but whether a festival audience are ready for a spot of gory sororicide, disembowelling and live burial, remains to be seen.

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Sororicide, sor-or′i-sīd, n. the murder, or the murderer, of a sister.

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Notwithstanding the excitement and �clat attending the triumphant entry of Horatius into Rome, the proper officer of the period, whoever he may have been, was evidently not only on duty, but prepared to do it, for the victorious fratricide, or sororicide, was at once hurried off to the nearest Roman station.

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If the envious man from the house-top denounces a man of reputation as a thief, a gambler, a patricide, a sororicide, amicocide, no man regardeth his voice, though he call out with the voice of Stentor: people only stare: these are the words of a madman or a malignant.

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