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prolicide

noun

Etymology

From Latin prōlēs (“offspring”) + -cide.

  1. derived from prōlēs

Definitions

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

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