Definition of "femicide" [femicide]

• The killing of women. (noun)

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• "The "femicide" is triggered in males by feelings of sexual arousal."
• "Third, therefore, the study has purposely omitted the violence, including femicide, which is routinely perpetrated against daughters and sisters in "occupied Palestine" and has, instead, chosen to focus only on husband-wife violence and only on couples who are currently married."
• ""After 10 years, I can fundamentally say that there is a global pattern which I am now calling" femicide "that is systemically undermining, undoing and desecrating women.""