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Murdering an infant
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infanticide
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Infanticide is a defence to murder, but it is more usual to charge infanticide in the first place. ▪ Female promiscuity in monkeys and apes can be explained by the need to share paternity among many males to prevent infanticide ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In animals , infanticide involves the killing of young offspring by a mature animal of its own species , and is studied in zoology , specifically in the field of ethology . Ovicide is the analogous destruction of eggs . Although human infanticide has been ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a person who murders an infant murdering an infant
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The murder of an infant. 2 The murder of a child by a parent; filicide. 3 The murderer of a child: a person who has committed infanticide. 4 (context zoology English) The killing of a young, immature animal by a mature adult of the same species.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Infanticide \In*fan"ti*cide\, n. [L. infanticida: cf. F. infanticide.] One who commits the crime of infanticide; one who kills an infant.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, "the killing of infants;" 1670s, "one who kills an infant," from infant + -cide .
Usage examples of infanticide.
Or was infanticide against the rules Old Conc had set down for them, and would a warrior who so fell from grace be disciplined, exiled, or executed?
In addition, Ahl had heard of families who used infanticide to control the number of males and females in each generation.
The swellings, her very public estrus, were thus a way for Patch to control the males around her at minimal cost to herself, and to reduce the risk of infanticide.
On the home world, any infant so changed would have been exposed, but on the sailship infanticide was seldom practiced.
Infanticide was practised by many early cultures, with the rationale of preserving the best of the species.
It was the usual story of the infanticides committed by servant girls.
Ironically, reports of cannibalistic infanticide and incestuous orgies were among the particulars used by Roman authorities to persecute the early Christians.
And there's a third class of related claims, repressed `memories' of satanic ritual cults - in which sexual torture, coprophilia, infanticide and cannibalism are said to be prominently featured.
The US Army of Occupation in Japan was denying rumors that many infanticides were occurring in the areas around Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The closest thing we've got to a birth control pill is infanticide!
In practice, nomadic hunter-gatherers space their children about four years apart by means of lactational amenorrhea, sexual abstinence, infanticide, and abortion.
As a major cause of infant death, infanticide is a serious evolutionary problem for animal mothers, who thereby lose their genetic investment in murdered offspring.
After several such pronouncements, aimed at curbing infanticide, had issued from New Borne, the luckless misborn had come to be called the "Pope's nephews," or the "Pope's children," by some.
After several such pronouncements, aimed at curbing infanticide, had issued from New Rome, the luckless misborn had come to be called the “Pope’s nephews,” or the “Pope’s children,” by some.
For some reason they never play dying in childbirth, or vomiting your guts out from the red dysentery, or weaving till you go blind and crippled from arthritis and dye poisoning, or infanticide.