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infanticide

[ UK /ɪnfˈɑːntɪsˌa‍ɪd/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnˈfæntəˌsaɪd/ ]
NOUN
  1. a person who murders an infant
  2. murdering an infant

How To Use infanticide In A Sentence

  • There is a very widespread and accepted practice of infanticide in most countries.
  • Considering the simple and quite verifiable fact that the Christian bible recognizes the 'Old Testament 'as being divinely inspired (indeed, many Christians believe the bible to be the inerrant word of god), we may pose the simple question to Christians (and Jews, as it turns out) as to whether infanticide is ethically or morally acceptable. Harlan Ellison on God
  • Abortion is the destruction of life after conception and before birth, whereas infanticide is the killing of new-born babies.
  • Infanticide rates have dropped dramatically in areas where the messiahs operate, but many mothers still give their girl babies away.
  • Members of the SWC jury said, while commenting on one case, that infanticide is an abominable crime and those who commit it cannot be exonerated, whatever the extenuating circumstances.
  • Experts think that the most important of these is female infanticide and foeticide which are practiced in our country.
  • Some of these issues include infanticide, child abuse, incest, forced marriage, marital rape, classism, ableism, and sexism.
  • Despite numerous measures taken by the Government, cases of female infanticide are reported from many areas.
  • Their vision of murderesses and female infanticides as victims and of their murders as motivated by self-defense was part of a strategy of systematic confrontation.
  • Third of all, the practice of infanticide for unwed mothers was economic, as well as moral; it wasn't merely social stigma she worried about, but the real impossibility of nursing an infant and working.
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