husbandicide

The crime of husbandicide—the word is as permissible as infanticide—is as old as the discovery, made a very long time ago, that marriage is a failure.

1889 September 21, The Saturday Evening Post, volume 69, number 11, Philadelphia, PA, page 11

From the time of the Empress Agrippina the world has progressed in many things, but the art of husbandicide, in which the amiable spouse of Claudius was already so proficient, has remained practically stationary.

1892 April 9, “Professional Husband Killers.”, in Victoria Daily Times, Victoria, B.C., page 12

Arsenic in the soup is fast supplanting firearms as a husbandicide among the more dashing members of the younger set.

[1923 September 7, Madison Capital Times, volume 12, number 67, Madison, WI, page 16

The murdering wife became the heroine of yet another twisted variation on the fairy tale, one that came to include husbandicide as an acceptable female fantasy.

2005, Anne Kingston, The Meaning of Wife, New York City, NY: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, →ISBN, page 196