Definition of infanticide in English:

infanticide

noun ɪnˈfantɪsʌɪdɪnˈfæn(t)əˌsaɪd

1mass noun The crime of a mother killing her child within a year of birth.
（母亲）杀婴罪
cases of infanticide often involve extreme emotional disturbance
Example sentencesExamples
- A paediatrician argued that two infant deaths within the family made infanticide statistically almost certain, and that the episodes of hypernatraemia indicated salt poisoning.
- Cases now treated as infanticide often involve extreme emotional disturbance, as do mercy killings, suicide pacts, and cases of duress.
- The vast majority of women who are charged under Britain's infanticide statute are convicted and then given probationary sentences, often with mandatory psychological counseling.
- Hence, if I go on to express my rejection of infanticide by saying that infanticide is wrong I am committed to rejecting abortion.
- There are several offences of unlawful homicide: murder, manslaughter, infanticide and causing death by dangerous driving.
- One deals with the postpartum depression defense for a mother accused of infanticide.
- So is it possible to say, leaving infanticide to one side, what kind of mothers do better under the legal system and which do worse?
- Abortion is the destruction of life after conception and before birth, whereas infanticide is the killing of new-born babies.
- Life must be protected with the utmost care from the moment of conception: abortion and infanticide are abominable crimes.
- The death penalty applied to homicide, infanticide, rape, robbery, and a number of non-violent crimes, like theft.
- And birth is too late, because abortion of a nearly full-term fetus is (under most circumstances) the moral equivalent of infanticide.
- There were sixteen convictions for manslaughter (although the original charge had been murder), one for infanticide, and one for murder.
- Our practice and our thought recognize infanticide in the archetypal mother, its desire to smother, dissolve, mourn, bewitch, poison, and petrify.
- Lord Goldsmith said 258 convictions of parents over 10 years for infanticide, murder and manslaughter were to be reviewed ‘as a matter of urgency’.
- Of course infanticide is a crime, but our treatment of it must be handled with compassion when such delicate issues as teenage pregnancy are involved.
- A concealed pregnancy was considered tantamount to the crime of infanticide.
- Murder and infanticide have been declared heinous crimes.
Synonyms
murder, taking of life, assassination, homicide, manslaughter, liquidation, elimination, doing to death, putting to death, execution, dispatch, martyrdom
1. 1.1 The practice in some societies of killing unwanted children soon after birth.
  （某些社会中对不想要的孩子的）杀婴
  female infanticide was practised to reduce the population in times of famine
  Example sentencesExamples
  There is a very widespread and accepted practice of infanticide in most countries.
  Here our boys saw off a corrupt and lecherous Indian ‘Brahmin’ priest and his gang, who were bent on preserving the alleged practice of female infanticide in India.
  Female infanticide was common, and the practice of sati, the immolation of the wife on her husband's funeral pyre, was encouraged, sometimes even forced.
  Psychologist Ilham al-Sarraf explained how Islam helped end the practice of female infanticide in the Middle East.
  Female infanticide was practised before the British arrived particularly among the high castes.
  The tome documents historical cases when women were targeted for gendercide, including the practice of female infanticide, the witch-hunts in Europe, and war rapes.
  Female infanticide, sex selective abortions, and the abandonment and neglect of baby girls remained problems due to the traditional preference for sons, and the birth limitation policy.
  Thanks to new laws and an aggressive intervention program, fewer girl children in Salem are being murdered, but the practice of female infanticide continues.
  Guru Gobind Singh issued orders forbidding the Khalsa having any association with those that practiced female infanticide.
  The practice of female infanticide in rural areas is alarming.
  Despite numerous measures taken by the Government, cases of female infanticide are reported from many areas.
  Women had a considerably better deal in ancient Israel than in, say, Assyria, and Muhammad, forbade the common practice of female infanticide.
  Religious edicts have underpinned suicide bombings, amputations, female infanticide and genital mutilation, and the practice of suttee.
  The practice of female infanticide started 50 years ago when a dam was constructed in the area and the village was divided into the well-irrigated and the arid zones leading to a great deal of economic inequality, says Johnson.
  But, in a country where female infanticide is practised and baby girls abandoned in dustbins, women chief ministers in five States is, nonetheless, remarkable.
  Sometimes the check is the natural one of famine and plague; in other societies, systematic infanticide is practiced.
  Cherokee women also customarily had a great deal of control over their own reproductive activities, having the right to practice abortion and infanticide.
  The practice of infanticide decreased since children could now be used in rudimentary agricultural tasks.
  In places where female infanticide was a customary practice, female foeticide has come in as a deadly substitute that is more convenient, less traumatic and equally effective.
  Female infanticide and discrimination is against the principles of liberty.
2A person who kills an infant, especially their own child.
（尤指杀害自己婴儿的）杀婴者
Example sentencesExamples
- The Euripidean portrait of Medea as an infanticide had roots in the folkloric paradigm of the child-killing demon.
- 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.
- Frenchwomen Ask Clemency for an Infanticide.
- Saturn Devouring One of His Sons depicts the graphic and bloody dismemberment of a cannibalistic infanticide.

Derivatives

infanticidal

adjectiveɪnfantɪˈsʌɪd(ə)l

In early state societies, child-rearing was predominantly infanticidal.
Example sentencesExamples
- It can trick its way to getting more food, for example; a female chimp can ward off an infanticidal male from her kids with the help of alliances.
- Although infanticide trials commonly ended in a conviction for the lesser crime of concealment of a birth or a straight acquittal, some infanticidal mothers were acquitted on ground of insanity.
- He famously failed to defend the infanticidal Minnie Dean, the first and last woman to be hanged in New Zealand.
- Nor does Harris spend any time pondering, for instance, the infanticidal teachings of prominent philosophers and ethicists (such as Princeton's Peter Singer) who share Harris’ ‘rational’ utilitarian perspective.

Origin

Mid 17th century: via French from late Latin infanticidium, from Latin infant- (see infant) + -cidium (see -cide).

Definition of infanticide in US English:

infanticide

nounɪnˈfæn(t)əˌsaɪdinˈfan(t)əˌsīd

1The crime of killing a child within a year of birth.
（母亲）杀婴罪
cases of infanticide often involve extreme emotional disturbance
Example sentencesExamples
- So is it possible to say, leaving infanticide to one side, what kind of mothers do better under the legal system and which do worse?
- And birth is too late, because abortion of a nearly full-term fetus is (under most circumstances) the moral equivalent of infanticide.
- Lord Goldsmith said 258 convictions of parents over 10 years for infanticide, murder and manslaughter were to be reviewed ‘as a matter of urgency’.
- One deals with the postpartum depression defense for a mother accused of infanticide.
- The death penalty applied to homicide, infanticide, rape, robbery, and a number of non-violent crimes, like theft.
- Hence, if I go on to express my rejection of infanticide by saying that infanticide is wrong I am committed to rejecting abortion.
- The vast majority of women who are charged under Britain's infanticide statute are convicted and then given probationary sentences, often with mandatory psychological counseling.
- Murder and infanticide have been declared heinous crimes.
- Of course infanticide is a crime, but our treatment of it must be handled with compassion when such delicate issues as teenage pregnancy are involved.
- There were sixteen convictions for manslaughter (although the original charge had been murder), one for infanticide, and one for murder.
- There are several offences of unlawful homicide: murder, manslaughter, infanticide and causing death by dangerous driving.
- Cases now treated as infanticide often involve extreme emotional disturbance, as do mercy killings, suicide pacts, and cases of duress.
- Life must be protected with the utmost care from the moment of conception: abortion and infanticide are abominable crimes.
- Our practice and our thought recognize infanticide in the archetypal mother, its desire to smother, dissolve, mourn, bewitch, poison, and petrify.
- A concealed pregnancy was considered tantamount to the crime of infanticide.
- Abortion is the destruction of life after conception and before birth, whereas infanticide is the killing of new-born babies.
- A paediatrician argued that two infant deaths within the family made infanticide statistically almost certain, and that the episodes of hypernatraemia indicated salt poisoning.
Synonyms
murder, taking of life, assassination, homicide, manslaughter, liquidation, elimination, doing to death, putting to death, execution, dispatch, martyrdom
1. 1.1 The practice in some societies of killing unwanted children soon after birth.
  （某些社会中对不想要的孩子的）杀婴
  female infanticide was practiced to reduce the population in times of famine
  Example sentencesExamples
  Female infanticide and discrimination is against the principles of liberty.
  Female infanticide, sex selective abortions, and the abandonment and neglect of baby girls remained problems due to the traditional preference for sons, and the birth limitation policy.
  The practice of female infanticide started 50 years ago when a dam was constructed in the area and the village was divided into the well-irrigated and the arid zones leading to a great deal of economic inequality, says Johnson.
  Despite numerous measures taken by the Government, cases of female infanticide are reported from many areas.
  But, in a country where female infanticide is practised and baby girls abandoned in dustbins, women chief ministers in five States is, nonetheless, remarkable.
  Female infanticide was practised before the British arrived particularly among the high castes.
  Sometimes the check is the natural one of famine and plague; in other societies, systematic infanticide is practiced.
  Female infanticide was common, and the practice of sati, the immolation of the wife on her husband's funeral pyre, was encouraged, sometimes even forced.
  There is a very widespread and accepted practice of infanticide in most countries.
  Women had a considerably better deal in ancient Israel than in, say, Assyria, and Muhammad, forbade the common practice of female infanticide.
  In places where female infanticide was a customary practice, female foeticide has come in as a deadly substitute that is more convenient, less traumatic and equally effective.
  The practice of infanticide decreased since children could now be used in rudimentary agricultural tasks.
  Religious edicts have underpinned suicide bombings, amputations, female infanticide and genital mutilation, and the practice of suttee.
  Psychologist Ilham al-Sarraf explained how Islam helped end the practice of female infanticide in the Middle East.
  The tome documents historical cases when women were targeted for gendercide, including the practice of female infanticide, the witch-hunts in Europe, and war rapes.
  Guru Gobind Singh issued orders forbidding the Khalsa having any association with those that practiced female infanticide.
  Cherokee women also customarily had a great deal of control over their own reproductive activities, having the right to practice abortion and infanticide.
  The practice of female infanticide in rural areas is alarming.
  Thanks to new laws and an aggressive intervention program, fewer girl children in Salem are being murdered, but the practice of female infanticide continues.
  Here our boys saw off a corrupt and lecherous Indian ‘Brahmin’ priest and his gang, who were bent on preserving the alleged practice of female infanticide in India.
2A person who kills an infant, especially their own child.
（尤指杀害自己婴儿的）杀婴者
Example sentencesExamples
- The Euripidean portrait of Medea as an infanticide had roots in the folkloric paradigm of the child-killing demon.
- 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.
- Saturn Devouring One of His Sons depicts the graphic and bloody dismemberment of a cannibalistic infanticide.
- Frenchwomen Ask Clemency for an Infanticide.

Origin

Mid 17th century: via French from late Latin infanticidium, from Latin infant- (see infant) + -cidium (see -cide).

单词	infanticide
释义	Definition of infanticide in English: infanticide noun ɪnˈfantɪsʌɪdɪnˈfæn(t)əˌsaɪd 1mass noun The crime of a mother killing her child within a year of birth. （母亲）杀婴罪 cases of infanticide often involve extreme emotional disturbance Example sentencesExamples A paediatrician argued that two infant deaths within the family made infanticide statistically almost certain, and that the episodes of hypernatraemia indicated salt poisoning. Cases now treated as infanticide often involve extreme emotional disturbance, as do mercy killings, suicide pacts, and cases of duress. The vast majority of women who are charged under Britain's infanticide statute are convicted and then given probationary sentences, often with mandatory psychological counseling. Hence, if I go on to express my rejection of infanticide by saying that infanticide is wrong I am committed to rejecting abortion. There are several offences of unlawful homicide: murder, manslaughter, infanticide and causing death by dangerous driving. One deals with the postpartum depression defense for a mother accused of infanticide. So is it possible to say, leaving infanticide to one side, what kind of mothers do better under the legal system and which do worse? Abortion is the destruction of life after conception and before birth, whereas infanticide is the killing of new-born babies. Life must be protected with the utmost care from the moment of conception: abortion and infanticide are abominable crimes. The death penalty applied to homicide, infanticide, rape, robbery, and a number of non-violent crimes, like theft. And birth is too late, because abortion of a nearly full-term fetus is (under most circumstances) the moral equivalent of infanticide. There were sixteen convictions for manslaughter (although the original charge had been murder), one for infanticide, and one for murder. Our practice and our thought recognize infanticide in the archetypal mother, its desire to smother, dissolve, mourn, bewitch, poison, and petrify. Lord Goldsmith said 258 convictions of parents over 10 years for infanticide, murder and manslaughter were to be reviewed ‘as a matter of urgency’. Of course infanticide is a crime, but our treatment of it must be handled with compassion when such delicate issues as teenage pregnancy are involved. A concealed pregnancy was considered tantamount to the crime of infanticide. Murder and infanticide have been declared heinous crimes. Synonyms murder, taking of life, assassination, homicide, manslaughter, liquidation, elimination, doing to death, putting to death, execution, dispatch, martyrdom 1.1 The practice in some societies of killing unwanted children soon after birth. （某些社会中对不想要的孩子的）杀婴 female infanticide was practised to reduce the population in times of famine Example sentencesExamples There is a very widespread and accepted practice of infanticide in most countries. Here our boys saw off a corrupt and lecherous Indian ‘Brahmin’ priest and his gang, who were bent on preserving the alleged practice of female infanticide in India. Female infanticide was common, and the practice of sati, the immolation of the wife on her husband's funeral pyre, was encouraged, sometimes even forced. Psychologist Ilham al-Sarraf explained how Islam helped end the practice of female infanticide in the Middle East. Female infanticide was practised before the British arrived particularly among the high castes. The tome documents historical cases when women were targeted for gendercide, including the practice of female infanticide, the witch-hunts in Europe, and war rapes. Female infanticide, sex selective abortions, and the abandonment and neglect of baby girls remained problems due to the traditional preference for sons, and the birth limitation policy. Thanks to new laws and an aggressive intervention program, fewer girl children in Salem are being murdered, but the practice of female infanticide continues. Guru Gobind Singh issued orders forbidding the Khalsa having any association with those that practiced female infanticide. The practice of female infanticide in rural areas is alarming. Despite numerous measures taken by the Government, cases of female infanticide are reported from many areas. Women had a considerably better deal in ancient Israel than in, say, Assyria, and Muhammad, forbade the common practice of female infanticide. Religious edicts have underpinned suicide bombings, amputations, female infanticide and genital mutilation, and the practice of suttee. The practice of female infanticide started 50 years ago when a dam was constructed in the area and the village was divided into the well-irrigated and the arid zones leading to a great deal of economic inequality, says Johnson. But, in a country where female infanticide is practised and baby girls abandoned in dustbins, women chief ministers in five States is, nonetheless, remarkable. Sometimes the check is the natural one of famine and plague; in other societies, systematic infanticide is practiced. Cherokee women also customarily had a great deal of control over their own reproductive activities, having the right to practice abortion and infanticide. The practice of infanticide decreased since children could now be used in rudimentary agricultural tasks. In places where female infanticide was a customary practice, female foeticide has come in as a deadly substitute that is more convenient, less traumatic and equally effective. Female infanticide and discrimination is against the principles of liberty. 2A person who kills an infant, especially their own child. （尤指杀害自己婴儿的）杀婴者 Example sentencesExamples The Euripidean portrait of Medea as an infanticide had roots in the folkloric paradigm of the child-killing demon. 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. Frenchwomen Ask Clemency for an Infanticide. Saturn Devouring One of His Sons depicts the graphic and bloody dismemberment of a cannibalistic infanticide. Derivatives infanticidal adjectiveɪnfantɪˈsʌɪd(ə)l In early state societies, child-rearing was predominantly infanticidal. Example sentencesExamples It can trick its way to getting more food, for example; a female chimp can ward off an infanticidal male from her kids with the help of alliances. Although infanticide trials commonly ended in a conviction for the lesser crime of concealment of a birth or a straight acquittal, some infanticidal mothers were acquitted on ground of insanity. He famously failed to defend the infanticidal Minnie Dean, the first and last woman to be hanged in New Zealand. Nor does Harris spend any time pondering, for instance, the infanticidal teachings of prominent philosophers and ethicists (such as Princeton's Peter Singer) who share Harris’ ‘rational’ utilitarian perspective. Origin Mid 17th century: via French from late Latin infanticidium, from Latin infant- (see infant) + -cidium (see -cide). Definition of infanticide in US English: infanticide nounɪnˈfæn(t)əˌsaɪdinˈfan(t)əˌsīd 1The crime of killing a child within a year of birth. （母亲）杀婴罪 cases of infanticide often involve extreme emotional disturbance Example sentencesExamples So is it possible to say, leaving infanticide to one side, what kind of mothers do better under the legal system and which do worse? And birth is too late, because abortion of a nearly full-term fetus is (under most circumstances) the moral equivalent of infanticide. Lord Goldsmith said 258 convictions of parents over 10 years for infanticide, murder and manslaughter were to be reviewed ‘as a matter of urgency’. One deals with the postpartum depression defense for a mother accused of infanticide. The death penalty applied to homicide, infanticide, rape, robbery, and a number of non-violent crimes, like theft. Hence, if I go on to express my rejection of infanticide by saying that infanticide is wrong I am committed to rejecting abortion. The vast majority of women who are charged under Britain's infanticide statute are convicted and then given probationary sentences, often with mandatory psychological counseling. Murder and infanticide have been declared heinous crimes. Of course infanticide is a crime, but our treatment of it must be handled with compassion when such delicate issues as teenage pregnancy are involved. There were sixteen convictions for manslaughter (although the original charge had been murder), one for infanticide, and one for murder. There are several offences of unlawful homicide: murder, manslaughter, infanticide and causing death by dangerous driving. Cases now treated as infanticide often involve extreme emotional disturbance, as do mercy killings, suicide pacts, and cases of duress. Life must be protected with the utmost care from the moment of conception: abortion and infanticide are abominable crimes. Our practice and our thought recognize infanticide in the archetypal mother, its desire to smother, dissolve, mourn, bewitch, poison, and petrify. A concealed pregnancy was considered tantamount to the crime of infanticide. Abortion is the destruction of life after conception and before birth, whereas infanticide is the killing of new-born babies. A paediatrician argued that two infant deaths within the family made infanticide statistically almost certain, and that the episodes of hypernatraemia indicated salt poisoning. Synonyms murder, taking of life, assassination, homicide, manslaughter, liquidation, elimination, doing to death, putting to death, execution, dispatch, martyrdom 1.1 The practice in some societies of killing unwanted children soon after birth. （某些社会中对不想要的孩子的）杀婴 female infanticide was practiced to reduce the population in times of famine Example sentencesExamples Female infanticide and discrimination is against the principles of liberty. Female infanticide, sex selective abortions, and the abandonment and neglect of baby girls remained problems due to the traditional preference for sons, and the birth limitation policy. The practice of female infanticide started 50 years ago when a dam was constructed in the area and the village was divided into the well-irrigated and the arid zones leading to a great deal of economic inequality, says Johnson. Despite numerous measures taken by the Government, cases of female infanticide are reported from many areas. But, in a country where female infanticide is practised and baby girls abandoned in dustbins, women chief ministers in five States is, nonetheless, remarkable. Female infanticide was practised before the British arrived particularly among the high castes. Sometimes the check is the natural one of famine and plague; in other societies, systematic infanticide is practiced. Female infanticide was common, and the practice of sati, the immolation of the wife on her husband's funeral pyre, was encouraged, sometimes even forced. There is a very widespread and accepted practice of infanticide in most countries. Women had a considerably better deal in ancient Israel than in, say, Assyria, and Muhammad, forbade the common practice of female infanticide. In places where female infanticide was a customary practice, female foeticide has come in as a deadly substitute that is more convenient, less traumatic and equally effective. The practice of infanticide decreased since children could now be used in rudimentary agricultural tasks. Religious edicts have underpinned suicide bombings, amputations, female infanticide and genital mutilation, and the practice of suttee. Psychologist Ilham al-Sarraf explained how Islam helped end the practice of female infanticide in the Middle East. The tome documents historical cases when women were targeted for gendercide, including the practice of female infanticide, the witch-hunts in Europe, and war rapes. Guru Gobind Singh issued orders forbidding the Khalsa having any association with those that practiced female infanticide. Cherokee women also customarily had a great deal of control over their own reproductive activities, having the right to practice abortion and infanticide. The practice of female infanticide in rural areas is alarming. Thanks to new laws and an aggressive intervention program, fewer girl children in Salem are being murdered, but the practice of female infanticide continues. Here our boys saw off a corrupt and lecherous Indian ‘Brahmin’ priest and his gang, who were bent on preserving the alleged practice of female infanticide in India. 2A person who kills an infant, especially their own child. （尤指杀害自己婴儿的）杀婴者 Example sentencesExamples The Euripidean portrait of Medea as an infanticide had roots in the folkloric paradigm of the child-killing demon. 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. Saturn Devouring One of His Sons depicts the graphic and bloody dismemberment of a cannibalistic infanticide. Frenchwomen Ask Clemency for an Infanticide. Origin Mid 17th century: via French from late Latin infanticidium, from Latin infant- (see infant) + -cidium (see -cide).
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