Associations to the word «Filicide»

Wiktionary

FILICIDE, noun. A person who kills his or her own child.
FILICIDE, noun. The killing of one's own child.

Dictionary definition

FILICIDE, noun. A parent who murders his own son or daughter.
FILICIDE, noun. The murder of your own son or daughter.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats