Definition of "mariticide" []

• The act of killing one's spouse, especially the murder of a husband by his wife. (noun)
• A woman who has killed her husband. (noun)

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• "Aeschylus’s trilogy of tragedies tells of Clytemnestra’s mariticide of Agamemmnon, and of Orestes’s matricide of Clytemnestra, presenting these as torturae for the tragic protagonists — revenges that “must happen” and killings of kin that “must not happen”."