prolicide

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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

• filicide, infanticide, neonaticide; abortion

References

• “prolicide”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.