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humanicide en · NOUN

Etymology

From human + -icide.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The destruction of the human race.
   • 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? 2012, Thomas Keating, The Thomas Keating Reader:
   • What type of democracy enacts humanicide to attempt to save humanity? 2008, Christopher Ejsmond -, Reflections on Life, page 64:
   • … through a world war in which “a handful of people tried to commit humanicide,” thereby reducing the earth to a new state of nature. 2015, Cyrus R.K. Patell, “Speculative Fiction”, in Cosmopolitanism and the Literary Imagination:
   • 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. 1979 January-March, Christian Bay, “A human rights approach to transnational politics”, in Universal Humand Rights, volume 19:
2. (countable, uncountable) A substance, person, or group that exterminates people.
   • 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. 1895, Ohio State Horticultural Society, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting, page 104:
   • Man has been a “humanicide”. That is what Adorno meant when he said “It is barbaric to write poetry after Auschwitz”. 2016, JC Trainini, “SOFÍA SABSAY (Argentine contemporary Artist, 1924-2008)”, in Revista Argentina de Cardiología:
   • The German Gas Company. We specialize in Humanicides serving Iraq and Libya. 2010, Louis J. Salome, Violence, Veils and Bloodlines: Reporting from War Zones, page 57:
   • To facilitate the process of the suction of the fetus, the "humanicides" invented a new technique. 1992, The Womb Becomes a Tomb: Are We Sacrificing to Moloch?, page 17:
   • Almost all these poisons are extremely effective humanicides as well. 1991, Robert David Rodale, Mike McGrath, Save Three Lives: A Plan for Famine Prevention, page 59:

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