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Infanticide in a sentence
Infanticide meaning
- The murder of an infant.
- The murder of a child by a parent; filicide.
- The criminal offence of killing of a newborn, committed by its mother while psychologically disturbed by the effects of childbirth or lactation, not regarded as murder.
Synonyms of Infanticide
Infanticide vertaling naar Nederlands
Using Infanticide
- The main meaning on this page is: The murder of an infant. | The murder of a child by a parent; filicide. | The criminal offence of killing of a newborn, committed by its mother while psychologically disturbed by the effects of childbirth or lactation, not regarded as murder.
- Useful related words include: murderer, liquidator, manslayer, murder.
- Possible Dutch translations are: kindermoord, kinderdoding, infanticide.
- In the example corpus, infanticide often appears in combinations such as: female infanticide, of infanticide, infanticide and.
Context around Infanticide
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 8 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Infanticide
- In this selection, "infanticide" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, female, sanction, invoke, itself, may and zoology stand out and add context to how "infanticide" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include accounts of infanticide by females and also sanction infanticide. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "infanticide" sits close to words such as abdi, absa and absconding, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with infanticide
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Infanticide is common among chimpanzees, but unheard-of among bonobos. (10 words)
Kaali Khuhi is based on the subject of female foeticide and infanticide. (12 words)
The main reason seems to be they fear she will not support infanticide. (13 words)
While the Chinese film may feel like it’s pushing a pro-life agenda, it’s more likely that it’s addressing the nation’s long history of female infanticide and the toll that can take on a mother—and family—expecting a baby girl. (45 words)
And when McCain pressed him on this, specifically asking if he would be comfortable with a situation where “a woman wanted to invoke infanticide after a baby was born,” Buttigieg still refused to distance himself from infanticide. (37 words)
But, as a consequentialist, he realizes that his book will likely do more good if it offends fewer people, and so he deëmphasizes his suggestion that infanticide might sometimes be justified, though he doesn’t retract it. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
Wider effects In addition to debates over the morality of infanticide itself, there is some debate over the effects of infanticide on surviving children, and the effects of childrearing in societies that also sanction infanticide.
And when McCain pressed him on this, specifically asking if he would be comfortable with a situation where “a woman wanted to invoke infanticide after a baby was born,” Buttigieg still refused to distance himself from infanticide.
Infanticide, or the act of deliberately causing the death of young children, is often correlated with population control, and there are those who consider abortion a form of infanticide.
Also, accounts of infanticide by females have been reported; cases of female infanticide may be related to the dominance hierarchy in females or simply isolated pathological behaviours.
Infanticide by stepfathers, as well as child abuse in general by stepfathers, has been explained by spending resources on not genetically related children reducing reproductive success (See the Cinderella effect and Infanticide (zoology) ).
Hard times’ offspring may have vowed to have only two children or none at all, aided by abortions, the rhythm method, or infanticide.
Or, if infanticide is too far for you, just pull the old wicked stepmother from fairy tales routine and have the kid dumped in the deep forest somewhere to die alone.
But, as a consequentialist, he realizes that his book will likely do more good if it offends fewer people, and so he deëmphasizes his suggestion that infanticide might sometimes be justified, though he doesn’t retract it.
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, a Country Liberal Party senator, is keen on stopping late-term abortions, something she described as “infanticide”.
Watson (who, it’s worth noting, dismissed the IVF team’s work as “infanticide”) and Crick did not credit Franklin’s contributions, especially after she died in 1962, shortly before they won their Nobel Prize.
Whether characterized as genocide or infanticide, there can be no avoiding comparisons to the Third Reich, the Soviet Union, or Pol-Pot’s Khmer Rouge.
With a total of 14 people participating in this pathetic gesture, even signaling total capitulation to a mob of rape, infanticide, and necrophilia apologists comes with a steep price tag.
For example, yesterday the pro-infanticide, blackface-wearing Governor of Virginia, Ralph Northam, issued an executive order filled with false, deliberately deceptive information that lays the groundwork for framing gun owners as terrorists.
Kaali Khuhi is based on the subject of female foeticide and infanticide.
The main reason seems to be they fear she will not support infanticide.
We reject and condemn inhuman practices like female foeticide, female infanticide, child marriage, female genital mutilation etc. which are all man-made aberrations, never sanctioned by God or Divine Word.
While the Chinese film may feel like it’s pushing a pro-life agenda, it’s more likely that it’s addressing the nation’s long history of female infanticide and the toll that can take on a mother—and family—expecting a baby girl.
Because if what Northam describes were to happen to a viable baby, it would be infanticide.
Conservative voters have been taught to mouth court-sounding issues like “mah guns” or “infanticide” to mask the true goals of bigotry and sexism that motivate that base.
Infanticide is common among chimpanzees, but unheard-of among bonobos.
Common combinations with infanticide
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- female infanticide 11×
- of infanticide 8×
- infanticide and 7×
- and infanticide 6×
- infanticide is 6×
- infanticide in 5×
- or infanticide 4×
- that infanticide 3×
- as infanticide 3×
- infanticide was 3×