genticides

Noun

genticide (plural genticides)

1. (rare) The killing of a race or nation of people; the slaughter of an ethnic group; a genocide.
   • When we call unjust war murder, we give it too mild a name. It is wholesale murder; it is what might be denominated genticide, or the murder of nations.1837, “a friend of peace” [pseudonym; William Ladd], Dissertation on the Subject of a Congress of Nations, for the Adjustment of International Disputes without Recourse to Arms, New York, N.Y.: Ezra...
2. (rare) The killing of a kinsman or kinswoman; the murder of a blood relative.
   • Thus the hatred of the kin group was the highest penalty for genticide or the murder of a clansman: […]1916, Ernest W[atson] Burgess, “The Kinship Stage of Socialization”, in The Function of Socialization in Social Evolution, Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, →OCLC, page 82

   Synonyms:

   parricide