prolicide

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English

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Etymology

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Latin proles (offspring) + caedere (kill). Equivalent to +‎ -cide.

Noun

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prolicide (countable and uncountable, plural prolicides)

  1. (uncountable) The crime of destroying one's offspring, either in the womb or after birth[1823].
    • 1827, Robley Dunglison, Syllabus of the Lectures on Medical Jurisprudence, page 93:
      PROLICIDE [] Admits of two divisions, fœticide or criminal abortion and infanticide or the destruction of the new born infant.
  2. (countable) One who commits prolicide.
    • 1836, Michael Ryan, A Manual of Medical Jurisprudence and State Medicine, page 283:
      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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