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Meaning of prolicide | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. The crime of destroying one's offspring, either in the womb or after birth.
    uncountable
  2. One who commits prolicide.
    countable

Examples

“PROLICIDE […] Admits of two divisions, fœticide or criminal abortion and infanticide or the destruction of the new born infant.”
“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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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