Definition of honor killing
: the traditional practice in some countries of killing a family member who is believed to have brought shame on the family
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Indeed, one of the strands in the 2006 feature After Dark Falls, about an honor killing in an immigrant family in Sweden, already covered similar terrain more successfully.
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First Known Use of honor killing
1929
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