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feticides

feticides is the plural of feticide.

Meaning of feticide

Noun

feticide (countable and uncountable, plural feticides)

  1. The killing of a fetus or embryo; an induced abortion.
    • Zimra, then, takes an unequivocal stance; favoring Rashi's view over that of Maimonides, he offers little comfort for the rodef approach, holding instead that feticide cannot be regarded as murder becaue the fetus is not a nefesh.2002, Daniel Schiff, Abortion in Judaism, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 68
  2. One who kills a fetus.

Questions about feticides

What is feticides the plural of?
Feticides is the plural of feticide.

Words near feticides in the dictionary

  1. fetichized
  2. fetichizes
  3. fetichizing
  4. feticidal
  5. feticide
  6. feticides
  7. feticism
  8. fetid
  9. fetid sweat
  10. fetidin
  11. fetidins

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