filicide
noun
a person who kills their own child.
filicidal
-
a word derived from
filicide.
Example Sentences
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Beloved is, of course, a ghost story, but one that takes its central character, the filicidal Sethe, from doomed isolation to community.
From Slate ā Aug. 6, 2019
