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infanticides

infanticides is the plural of infanticide.

Meaning of infanticide

Noun (1)

infanticide (countable and uncountable, plural infanticides)

  1. The murder of an infant.
    • PROLICIDE […] Admits of two divisions, fœticide or criminal abortion and infanticide or the destruction of the new born infant.1827, Robley Dunglison, Syllabus of the Lectures on Medical Jurisprudence, page 93
  2. The murder of a child by a parent; filicide.
  3. (Canada) 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.
  4. The killing of a young, immature animal by a mature adult of the same species.

Noun (2)

infanticide (plural infanticides)

  1. The murderer of a child: a person who has committed infanticide.

Questions about infanticides

What is infanticides the plural of?
Infanticides is the plural of infanticide.

Words near infanticides in the dictionary

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

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