manslaughter
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manslaughter
- /ˈmænˌslɔːtə/ UK
- /ˈmænˌslɔtɚ/ US
Where it comes from
From Middle English manslaȝter, manslauter, equivalent to man + slaughter, or taken as an adaptation of Old English mansliht (“murder; killing of a person”), from mann (“person”) + sliht (“killing”), see manslaught. Cognate with Scots manslauchter (“homicide”). Compare also Old Frisian monslaga (“murder”).
noun manslaughters
- The slaying of a human being. For that cause We decreed for the Children of Israel that whosoever killeth a human being for other than manslaughter or corruption in the earth, it shall be as if he had killed all mankind, and whoso saveth the life of one, it shall be as if he had saved the life of all mankind.
- The unlawful killing of a human, either in negligence or incidentally to the commission of some unlawful act, but without specific malice, or upon a sudden excitement of anger; considered less culpable than murder, but more culpable than justifiable homicide. In 2003, Christopher Below was in an interrogation room at the Evansville Police Department when he admitted to Detective Scott Thomas of the Evansville Police Department that he had shot Kathern Fetzer in his apartment and disposed of the body in a commercial trash bin. Her remains were never recov
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Closest in meaning: homicidal, assassination, homicide, killing, mistake, latter, involuntary, wilful, killings, manslaught, slaughtre, murderment, deathsman, autocide, unlaw, assassinate
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noun act of killing unlawfully
| Español | homicidio, homicidio involuntario |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 고살 gosal |
| 日本語 | 故殺, 過失致死, 過失致死罪 kashitsuchishizai |
| 中文 | 誤殺 /误杀 wùshā, 過失殺人 /过失杀人 guòshī shārén, 非預謀殺人罪 /非预谋杀人罪 fēi yùmóu shārén zuì |
| Português | homicídio culposo |
| Français | homicide involontaire, homicide involontaire coupable |
| Deutsch | Totschlag, [Verbrechen] mit Todesfolge, fahrlässige Tötung |
| Italiano | omicidio colposo |
| Ελληνικά | ανθρωποκτονία anthropoktonía |
| Русский | непредумы́шленное уби́йство nepredumýšlennoje ubíjstvo |
| Tiếng Việt | ngộ sát |
| עברית | הריגה ברשלנות |
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title = {manslaughter},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
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