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< homicidal

homiletic >

hom·i·cide

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NOUN:

The killing of one person by another.
A person who kills another person.

ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English, from Old French, from Latin homicdium, and homicda hom, man; see dhghem- in Indo-European roots + -cdiumand -cda, -cide

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