femicide
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From Latin fēm(ina) (“woman”) + -icide, by analogy with genocide and homicide.
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femicide (countable and uncountable, plural femicides)
- The killing of a woman or girl because of her sex, especially when motivated by misogyny. [from 19th c.]
- 2020 March 7, Tom Phillips, “'This is our feminist spring': millions of Mexican women prepare to strike over femicides”, in The Guardian[1]:
- But when Mexican feminists hit the streets on Valentine’s Day to denounce their country’s worsening femicide crisis, she saw a chance to ensure her mother’s life and death were remembered.
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killing of women
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Noun[edit]
femicide f (plural femicides, diminutive femicidetje n)
- femicide
- Synonyms: vrouwenmoord, feminicide, gynocide
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