Noun: infanticide
| Singular | infanticide |
| Plural | infanticides |
Sample Sentences
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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:]
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A recent government survey shows that 65 per cent of the families in Japan today are nuclear families, and a report on infanticide published this year by the Criminal Sience Club of Chuo University here indicates that eight out of ten infanticides today occur in nuclear families. [1973 August 12, “Infanticide in Japan: Sign of the Times?”, in The New York Times:]
Nouns inflected like infanticide
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From French infanticide, from Latin īnfanticīdium. By surface analysis, infant + -i- + -cide. See: French Nouns '
infanticide', Latin Nouns '
īnfanticīdium'.