Genticide

Quick meaning: Genticide is a noun meaning The killing of a race or nation of people; the slaughter of an ethnic group; a genocide.

Meaning

The killing of a race or nation of people; the slaughter of an ethnic group; a genocide.

More Meanings

1. The killing of a kinsman or kinswoman; the murder of a blood relative.

Example Sentences

Thus the hatred of the kin group was the highest penalty for genticide or the murder of a clansman: […]

This cadaverous insistence upon our extinction is curdling my blood. Homicide! More than that — Genticide!

When we call unjust war murder, we give it too mild a name. It is wholesale murder; it is what might be denominated genticide, or the murder of nations.

[page 170] The term I shall employ is genticide, from the Latin gens meaning blood-relation or kin. […] [page 253] The metamorphosis of actual incest and genticide into astral saga was probably promoted by the savage belief that changes in weather and the aspects of the skies were somehow responses to their outrages of lust.

Word Forms

• genticides

Synonyms for genticide

Depending on context, synonyms include parricide.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include genocide, xenocide, humanicide, regicide, geocide, gynecide.

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