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infanticider en · NOUN

Etymology

From infanticide + -er.

Meanings

  1. (nonstandard, rare) One who commits infanticide.
    • Skinner (1987a) shows that while infanticide was not limited to periods of economic depression or unusual environmental stress, households of landless tenants and smallholders were more "consistent and persistent infanticiders" than their wealthier counterparts. 2010, Noriko O. Tsuya, Prudence and Pressure: Reproduction and Human Agency in Europe and Asia, 1700-1900:

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