Infanticide: Definition and part of speech

Infanticide

  1. n. One who commits the crime of infanticide; one who kills an infant.
  2. n. The murder of an infant born alive; the murder or killing of a newly born or young child; child murder.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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