Noun : Ancient myth contains numerous examples of filicide. From Dictionary.com.
When a parent also takes his or her own life, the phenomenon is called filicide-suicide. From Wordnik.com. [Madison.com - top] Reference
But mothers, too, commit "filicide" for all kinds of motives dark and strange or sometimes banal. From Wordnik.com. [Motherhood And Murder] Reference
And in fact, there are statistics that show about 200 mothers engage in this filicide which is what we call murdering of the child. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 30, 2009] Reference
At times, these internal or external stimuli affecting an animal's instinctive impulses result in cases of animal "filicide," "cannibalism" and "homosexuality.". From Wordnik.com. [THE MEDICAL NEWS] Reference
Dr. Resnick, first of all, is a foremost authority on filicide. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 12, 2002] Reference
The Estrada filicide isn't even the first to hit Hudson Oaks (population: 1,800). From Wordnik.com. [A Mother's Darkest Day] Reference
She's probably the world's foremost authority on filicide, and that's the death of children. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 12, 2002] Reference
It was filicide if you killed a son, he thought grimly; what was the word for assassinating a nephew?. From Wordnik.com. [A Breath of Snow and Ashes]
That should be the thing just reserved for forensic scientists or something, or people who study filicide (ph). From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 18, 2002] Reference
I suspect that church-going evangelical Christians have a lower level of filicide than the population as awhole. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Rifqa Bary — the 17-Year-Old Convert from Islam to Christianity — Ordered Back to Ohio, But to a Foster Family:] Reference
With maternal filicide, these are women who kill children, sometimes they kill these children because they ` re unwanted. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 22, 2007] Reference
No, they want to be behind to bask in the sympathy and support of their neighbors and to wallow in their grief and filicide. From Wordnik.com. [Liberal Democracies Struggle in Confronting the 'Culture of Death'] Reference
I suspect that church-going evangelical Christians have a lower level of filicide than the population as a whole much lower if you count abortion. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Rifqa Bary — the 17-Year-Old Convert from Islam to Christianity — Ordered Back to Ohio, But to a Foster Family:] Reference
Victoria was guilty of filicide, one of those wonderful clinical terms dreamed up by shrinks to put a bearable distance between the act and the description thereof. From Wordnik.com. [A Taint in the Blood]
Tragic result sometimes is filicide-suicide wsjcity@madison. com. From Wordnik.com. [Madison.com - top] Reference
How many stories can one dig up by googling incidences of religious filicide?. From Wordnik.com. [Brain Blogger] Reference
Are we to conclude that filicide and cannibalism are according to human nature?. From Wordnik.com. [THE MEDICAL NEWS] Reference
American Anthropological Association , and little is known about maternal filicide. From Wordnik.com. [ABC News: Top Stories] Reference
A number of other high profile cases of filicide have attracted national attention in the last few years. From Wordnik.com. [Officer.com: Top News Stories] Reference
The band take their name from a Danish folk tale which features filicide, hangings, hideous hags and magical lamps. From Wordnik.com. [The Line Of Best Fit] Reference
So what bring a mother to the brink of committing such a horrific crime as filicide; the murdering of their own child?. From Wordnik.com. [Officer.com: Top News Stories] Reference
"Baby Blues" is a very disturbing film that covers one of the most horrible acts that can be committed by humans, filicide. From Wordnik.com. [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference
At one point in the film's web of visions, the perpetrator of a triple filicide points proudly to her handiwork and says, "See, aren't they beautiful?". From Wordnik.com. [AltWeeklies.com Site Feed] Reference
‘to intricate’ does not; ‘parricide’, but not ‘filicide’ (Holland). From Wordnik.com. [English Past and Present] Reference
We had the world ` s expert in filicide. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 1, 2006] Reference
The botanical filicide dead on the spot. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell] Reference
Time destroy 'd Is filicide,, where more than. From Wordnik.com. [The complaint; or Night thoughts on life, death, and immortality. With the life of the author] Reference
"homosexuality," "filicide" and "cannibalism" are exceptions to normal animal behavior. From Wordnik.com. [THE MEDICAL NEWS] Reference
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