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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