prolicide

English

Etymology

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

Noun

prolicide (countable and uncountable, plural prolicides)

  1. (uncountable) The crime of destroying one's offspring, either in the womb or after birth.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Bouvier to this entry?)
  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.

See also

References
  • prolicide in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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