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infanticide definition

in·fan·ti·cide (in fan′tə sīd′)

noun

  1. the murder of a baby

  2. Etymology: Fr < LL infanticida

    a person guilty of this

Etymology: Fr < LL infanticidium < infanticidia, one who kills an infant: see infant & -cide

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