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prolicides

prolicides is the plural of prolicide.

Meaning of prolicide

Noun

prolicide (countable and uncountable, plural prolicides)

  1. (uncountable) The crime of destroying one's offspring, either in the womb or after birth.
    • 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. (countable) One who commits prolicide.
    • Perhaps they had accommodated the foregoing statement to the casuistical axiom, non homo est, qui non futurus est, which is a very agreeable one to prolicides.1836, Michael Ryan, A Manual of Medical Jurisprudence and State Medicine, page 283

Questions about prolicides

What is prolicides the plural of?
Prolicides is the plural of prolicide.

Words near prolicides in the dictionary

  1. proletary
  2. Proletcult
  3. Proletkult
  4. prolibrigenal
  5. prolicide
  6. prolicides
  7. prolidase
  8. prolidases
  9. prolife
  10. prolifer
  11. proliferant

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