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4. Please forgive the pedantry. . .

Reply to janterry (Original post)

Thu Oct 21, 2021, 05:14 PM

Oct 2021

. . . But I recently learned a new word. "Uxoricide" is the formal term for the murder of one's wife. "Uxor" is wife in Latin. Would never have guessed that in a million years from seeing the word.

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New Hampshire man tells police he shot and killed wife in Bolton in camper (VT Femicide) [View all] janterry Oct 2021 OP

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He is 41 and she was just 22 janterry Oct 2021 #2

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Please forgive the pedantry. . . Collimator Oct 2021 #4