Meaning of humanicide | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The destruction of the human race.
   countable, uncountable
2. A substance, person, or group that exterminates people.
   countable, uncountable

Examples

“Short of omnicide, the killing of everything, and of humanicide, the destruction of the whole human race, which a collapse of the ecosystem would bring about (a nuclear World War III could be a shortcut), surely genocide must be considered the supreme crime against mankind.”

“What type of democracy enacts humanicide to attempt to save humanity?”

“As we contront the crisis of civilization culminating in the specter of humanicide, is there an alternative to the present plunge of humanity toward the abyss of utmost violence?”

“… through a world war in which “a handful of people tried to commit humanicide,” thereby reducing the earth to a new state of nature.”

“You will pardon me for telling you just what I at the time thought, viz. that you needed a "humanicide" as badly as you needed insecticides.”

“Almost all these poisons are extremely effective humanicides as well.”

“To facilitate the process of the suction of the fetus, the "humanicides" invented a new technique.”

“The German Gas Company. We specialize in Humanicides serving Iraq and Libya.”

“Man has been a “humanicide”. That is what Adorno meant when he said “It is barbaric to write poetry after Auschwitz”.”

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