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eugenocide en · NOUN

Etymology

Blend of eugenics + genocide.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) The elimination of people considered weak or defective in an attempt to improve the gene pool.
   • Practiced on an international scale, eugenocide will do much to prevent lingering, tortuous death by starvation, occasioned so often by overbrowse in underdeveloped nations. 1971, Intellectual Digest - Volume 2, page 286:
   • It was the "first of the modest schemes for the ecological conservation and harvesting of newborns, which we have come to know as the science of eugenocide." 1971, The Scriblerian - Volumes 4-5, page 99:
   • Wolfensberger (1981) refers to the particular effort to eliminate people with disabilities as eugenocide. 1994, Richard Sobsey, Violence and Abuse in the Lives of People with Disabilities, →ISBN, page 115:

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