infanticide
7
9.9
- noun
- /ɪnˈfæntɪˌsaɪd/
- Offensive
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infanticidio
- Many female common chimpanzees with infants live apart from any group, probably to protect their babies from infanticide.
- practice of twin infanticide
- female infanticide
- infanticide was widely practiced
You know, this would be an infanticide situation where it can be adaptive in some.
- You know, this would be an infanticide situation where it can be adaptive in some.
- And one of the issues was infanticide.
Examples
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So that meant that infanticide would be a way to actually keep at least one child out of the set alive.
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In addition, Ahl had heard of families who used infanticide to control the number of males and females in each generation.
Fiction book (1999) -
To stop the child would entail another evil: infanticide.
Academic text (2014) -
In these areas, twin infanticide continued at least into the early part of the twentieth century.
Academic text (2001) -
Subjects also included women hanged for the crime of infanticide.
Academic text (1996) -
Upon Moses' birth, it is said that he was placed in a reed basket and set adrift in a river in order to avoid infanticide.
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The tragic case of infanticide shocked the community and led to calls for better support for new parents.
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In some cultures, infanticide has been historically practiced due to various social pressures.
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Legislation aimed at preventing infanticide has been introduced to protect vulnerable infants and support families.
How Severe
- Offensive
7
9.9
- Offensive
86
3.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Infanticide comes from two Latin parts, infant from infans meaning 'unable to speak', and -cide meaning 'to kill', the same -cide you see in homicide and suicide. So, infanticide means the act or crime of killing an infant.