Prolicide
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Prolicide is a noun meaning (uncountable) The crime of destroying one's offspring, either in the womb or after birth.
Meaning
(uncountable) The crime of destroying one's offspring, either in the womb or after birth.
More Meanings
- (countable) One who commits prolicide.
Example Sentences
PROLICIDE […] Admits of two divisions, fœticide or criminal abortion and infanticide or the destruction of the new born infant.
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.
Word Forms
- prolicides
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include abortation, spoliation, accident, amblosis, perpetration, spoil.
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