Infanticide Definition

ĭn-făntĭ-sīd
noun
The act of killing an infant.
American Heritage
The murder of a baby.
Webster's New World
A person guilty of this.
Webster's New World
One who kills an infant.
American Heritage
(zoology) The killing of a young, immature animal by a mature adult of the same species.
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Other Word Forms of Infanticide

Noun

Singular:
infanticide
Plural:
infanticides

Origin of Infanticide

  • Late Latin īnfanticīdium the killing of a child īnfanticīda killer of a child Latin īnfāns īnfant- infant infant Latin -cīdium -cīda -cide

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From infant +‎ -cide.

    From Wiktionary

Infanticide Sentence Examples

  • The southern and western peoples still practise infanticide as regards children born on several unlucky days in each month.

  • Many of these are girls abandoned by their families female infanticide is still an issue.

  • They value children, and seldom practised infanticide, and cannibalism was rare.

  • To prevent the breaking down of their properties, the necessary consequence of this law of inheritance, there is no doubt that infanticide was common among them, and that it extended to the male as well as the female progeny, but it has been put down by the Infanticide Rules, which provide for the registration of Jareja children.

  • Thus the Brahmans were offended at the prohibition of suttee and female infanticide, the execution of Brahmans for capital offences, the re-marriage of widows, the spread of missionary effort and the extension of Western education.

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Words Starting With

IININF

Words Ending With

EDEIDE

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11 Letter Words11 Letter Words Starting With I11 Letter Words Ending With E