[ad. mod.L. *ūxōricīd-a, f. L. ūxor wife: see -CIDE 1.] One who murders his wife.
1842. Hartford (CT) Courant, 6 June, 2/4. It [Ann Boleyn’s clock] bears the initials of the future uxoricide and his ill-fated toy and victim, in a true lover’s knot, with an inscription, ‘The most happye,’ afterwards so miserably belied.
1860. Worcester.
1889. Macm. Mag., Jan., 237/2. Henry … the tyrant and uxoricide.
1894. Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch, 13 Oct., 6/5. To-day the uxoricide was arrested.
