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uxoricida

uxoricida [CL uxor+-cida], one who kills his wife, wife-murderer. delicti enormitas impedit matrimonium, ut in ~a, non tamen in matricida, licet majus sit peccatum Rob. Flamb. Pen. 59; ~arum penitentia talis est T. Chobham Conf. 456; ~a prohibetur a matrimonio Holcot Wisd. 148; cum vir invenit uxorem suam in actu adulterii tunc etiam ‥ lex civilis ~am non punit morte J. Burgh PO VIII 11 f. 137.

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