infanticide
noun
in·fan·ti·cide
in-ˈfan-tə-ˌsīd 
1
: the killing of an infant
2
[Late Latin infanticida, from Latin infant-, infans + -i- + -cida -cide]
: one who kills an infant
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For a while, Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, a professor emerita of anthropology at the University of California, Davis, hewed to the belief that males were simply wired differently; one of her initial forays into academic research explored the penchant for infanticide among male langur monkeys.
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Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 16 June 2024
Bavaria’s capital and Euripides’s tragedy of infanticide have both very much and very little to do with the events of Munich Medea: Happy Family, Corinne Jaber’s unsettling play about childhood abuse, told in unflinching detail.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 12 Feb. 2024
She was declared guilty after rejecting her legal defense with New Zealand’s insanity and infanticide laws.
—Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 17 Aug. 2023
This variant of the base-rate fallacy arises because while multiple cases of SIDS are rare, so too are multiple maternal infanticides.
—David Robert Grimes, Scientific American, 8 Dec. 2023
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Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 16 June 2024
Bavaria’s capital and Euripides’s tragedy of infanticide have both very much and very little to do with the events of Munich Medea: Happy Family, Corinne Jaber’s unsettling play about childhood abuse, told in unflinching detail.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 12 Feb. 2024
She was declared guilty after rejecting her legal defense with New Zealand’s insanity and infanticide laws.
—Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 17 Aug. 2023
This variant of the base-rate fallacy arises because while multiple cases of SIDS are rare, so too are multiple maternal infanticides.
—David Robert Grimes, Scientific American, 8 Dec. 2023
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infanticide
noun
in·fan·ti·cide
in-ˈfant-ə-ˌsīd
1
: the killing of an infant
2
: one who kills an infant
Legal Definition
infanticide
noun
in·fan·ti·cide
in-ˈfan-tə-ˌsīd
: the killing of a newly or recently born child
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