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infanticide
/ɪnˈfæntɪsaɪd/
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What does infanticide mean?
noun
- The murder of an infant.
- The murder of a child by a parent; filicide.
- The criminal offence of killing of a newborn, committed by its mother while psychologically disturbed by the effects of childbirth or lactation, not regarded as murder.
More meanings (2)
noun
- The killing of a young, immature animal by a mature adult of the same species.
- The murderer of a child: a person who has committed infanticide.
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IPA pronunciation
/ɪnˈfæntɪsaɪd/
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I told her of certain criminal types of women--perverts, or crazy, who had been known to commit infanticide.
They had begun with the infanticide, and now they had reached the convict, the old offender, the “return horse.”
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My first impression upon landing was that the crime of infanticide had not reached the islands of Keeling Cocos.
In a certain country that I will not name there exists a scientifically arranged system of infanticide cloaked under the garb of philanthropy.
When, owing to female infanticide, the women of a tribe were few, the habit of capturing wives from neighbouring tribes would naturally arise.