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infanticide [ in-fan -tuh -sahyd ] SHOW IPA
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noun
the act of killing an infant.
the practice of killing newborn infants.
a person who kills an infant.
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Origin of infanticide 1650–60;
(def. 1) <Late Latin
infanticīdium; (def. 2) <Late Latin
infanticīda. See
infant ,
-i- ,
-cide
OTHER WORDS FROM infanticide in·fan·ti·cid·al, adjective
Words nearby infanticide infamy ,
infancy ,
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infanta ,
infante ,
infanticide ,
infantile ,
infantile autism ,
infantile paralysis ,
infantilism ,
infantilize
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How to use infanticide in a sentence Drinking a First Growth Bordeaux or Grands Échezeaux too young, for example, is to commit bibendous infanticide , no matter the Instagram likes.
“Infanticide is a very difficult to observe phenomenon,” says Elise Huchard, a behavioral ecologist at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and the University of Montpellier in France who was not involved with the work.
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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British Dictionary definitions for infanticide
noun
the killing of an infant
the practice of killing newborn infants, still prevalent in some primitive tribes
a person who kills an infant
Derived forms of infanticide infanticidal , adjective Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
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