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matricide definition - legal

n

  1. The act of killing oneÂ’s mother.
  2. A person who has killed his or her mother.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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