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infanticide

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in·fan·ti·cide  (n-fnt-sd)
n.
1. The act of killing an infant.
2. The practice of killing newborn infants.
3. One who kills an infant.
[Late Latin nfanticdium, the killing of a child and nfnticda, killer of a child : Latin nfns, nfant-, infant; see infant + Latin -cdium and -cda, -cide.]
in·fanti·cidal (-sdl) adj.
infanticide
Noun
1. the act of killing an infant
2. a person who kills an infant [infant + Latin caedere to kill]
infanticide
1. the murder of infants.
2. a person who kills infants. — infanticidal, adj.
See also: Killing
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.infanticide - a person who murders an infant
liquidator, manslayer, murderer - a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being)
2.infanticide - murdering an infant
murder, slaying, execution - unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being
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They practice infanticide, and kill the aged and physically unfit.
The Lost Continent by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
The ratio of increase among all the Polynesian nations is very small; and in some places as yet uncorrupted by intercourse with Europeans, the births would appear not very little to outnumber the deaths; the population in such instances remaining nearly the same for several successive generations, even upon those islands seldom or never desolated by wars, and among people with whom the crime of infanticide is altogether unknown.
Typee by Melville, Herman View in context
They forget, or will not remember, that human sacrifices, and the power of an idolatrous priesthood -- a system of profligacy unparalleled in any other part of the world -- infanticide a consequence of that system -- bloody wars, where the conquerors spared neither women nor children -- that all these have been abolished; and that dishonesty, intemperance, and licentiousness have been greatly reduced by the introduction of Christianity.
The Voyage of the Beagle by Darwin, Charles View in context
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