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infanticider

infanticider noun: one who commits infanticide.

Noun

infanticider (plural infanticiders)

  1. (nonstandard, rare) One who commits infanticide.
    • Skinner (1987a) shows that while infanticide was not limited to periods of economic depression or unusual environmental stress, households of landless tenants and smallholders were more "consistent and persistent infanticiders" than their wealthier counterparts.2010, Noriko O. Tsuya, Prudence and Pressure: Reproduction and Human Agency in Europe and Asia, 1700-1900

Forms of infanticider

pluralinfanticiders

Origin of infanticider

From infanticide + -er.

Questions about infanticider

What does infanticider mean?
Infanticider means one who commits infanticide.
What part of speech is infanticider?
Infanticider is a noun.
What is the plural of infanticider?
The plural of infanticider is infanticiders.

Words near infanticider in the dictionary

  1. infanthood
  2. infanthoods
  3. infanticidal
  4. infanticidally
  5. infanticide
  6. infanticider
  7. infanticiders
  8. infanticides
  9. infantier
  10. infantiers
  11. infantile

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