English

edit

Adjective

edit

feminicidal (comparative more feminicidal, superlative most feminicidal)

  1. Alternative form of femicidal.
    • 1855 December 1, “The Count of Midlent”, in William Chambers, Robert Chambers, editors, Chambers’s Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts, volume IV, number 100, London, Edinburgh: W. and R. Chambers [], published 1856, page 343, column 2:
      I had looked out for an elegant count, something in the Almaviva style; but the Hazebrouck authorities preferred a model after the fashion of our Henry VIII., only not quite of so burly and feminicidal an aspect.
    • 1912, Pierre de Coulevain, “Lausanne”, in Alys Hallard, transl., The Heart of Life, New York, N.Y.: E. P. Dutton & Company [], page 137:
      [] Father puts up with them, because their husbands are good shots, and I always want to say wicked things to them. They might drive me to feminicide.” [] “Yes,” she continued, “I assure you they give me feminicidal ideas. They both knew me as a child, they did not approve of my extremely modern education and they are delighted that I have turned out badly.”
    • 2013, Ingrid Spiller, “Civil Society’s Strategies to Confront Growing Insecurity and Violence in Mexico”, in Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung and Regine Schönenberg, editors, Transnational Organized Crime: Analyses of a Global Challenge to Democracy (Political Science; 17), Bielefeld, N.R.W.: transcript Verlag, →ISBN, section 6 (Mexico), page 172:
      The lack of sufficient data makes it impossible to establish a systematic link between the cartels and feminicidal murders.