filicide

noun

fil·i·cide | \ ˈfi-lə-ˌsīd

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Definition of filicide

: the murder of one's own daughter or son

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Yet Western culture has been haunted for millennia by the wretched House of Atreus – cursed through the generations with fratricide, patricide, filicide, mariticide, and matricide. — Steven G. Kellman, The Christian Science Monitor, "'House of Names' is Colm Tóibín's take on the House of Atreus," 9 June 2017

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