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prolicide
[ proh-luh-sahyd ]
noun
- the killing of one's child.
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Other Words From
- proli·cidal adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of prolicide1
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Example Sentences
The Dollanger books, which feature almost every kind of forbidden act you can think of, from attempted matricide to prolicide to every iteration of incest imaginable, offer a shocking but necessary way into that inky, gory, and deeply human psychological underworld.
From The Guardian
The inevitable next move for Murdoch is prolicide.
From The Guardian
Associated words: pediatrics, prolicide, infanticide, puberty, philoprogenitive, philoprogenitiveness, misopedia, filicide, putti, filial, filiation, affiliation, affiliate. childbirth, n. parturition, accouchement, childbed, lying-in, travail, labor, childbearing.
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