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infanticide
[ in-fan-tuh-sahyd ]
noun
- the act of killing an infant.
- the practice of killing newborn infants.
- a person who kills an infant.
infanticide
/ ɪnˈfæntɪˌsaɪd /
noun
- the killing of an infant
- the practice of killing newborn infants, still prevalent in some primitive tribes
- a person who kills an infant
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Derived Forms
- inˌfantiˈcidal, adjective
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Other Words From
- in·fanti·cidal adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of infanticide1
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Example Sentences
Well the idea of “release” and infanticide and suggestions of eliminating the imperfect is pretty gnarly, if you think about it.
Neighboring city-state Athens was more haphazard about its infanticide.
What we need to learn from the Gosnell case is that late-term abortion is infanticide.
There is a reason the late Democratic senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan called this procedure infanticide.
The right tried to use this against Obama in 2008, leading FactCheck.org to look into claims that Obama supported infanticide.
They did not know enough to prevent conception, but they did the best they could by means of abortion and infanticide.
They practice polyandry.258 Infanticide was frequent among them until suppressed under the action of Government.
Even to-day infanticide still appears to be practised by some of the Dravidian tribes of Hindustan.
When morality is no more taught, religion no longer received, or laws exist, Medea would still terrify us with her infanticide.
Nowhere are drunkenness and infanticide more disgusting and horrible, when they do occur, than in Calvinistic Scotland.
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