race suicide

American  

noun

1. the extinction of a racial or ethnic population that tends to result when, through the unwillingness or forbearance of its members to have children, the birthrate falls below the death rate.

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Etymology

Origin of race suicide

An Americanism dating back to 1900–05

Example Sentences

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race suicide

The man generally credited with having invented the phrase "race suicide."

From Time Magazine Archive

Because they are the hybrid, infertile offspring of a mare and a jackass, race suicide is as involuntary among mules as old-fashioned families among rabbits.

From Time Magazine Archive

Prominent objectors to birth control are less vocal than in the past, but the late Theodore Roosevelt's protest against "race suicide" is well known.

From Time Magazine Archive

The excess of births over deaths was 94,000 Thus is courage given to opponents of race suicide in France.

From Time Magazine Archive

Run on the flat, without any difficulties, it would lose its zest both for pursuer and pursued, and Judge Cupid would as well shut up court and become an advocate of race suicide.

From Little Miss Grouch A Narrative Based on the Log of Alexander Forsyth Smith's Maiden Transatlantic Voyage by Crosby, Raymond Moreau