eugenicide

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A form of eugenocide — The elimination of people considered weak or defective in an attempt to improve the gene pool.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

nouneugenicide (uncountable)
  1. alternativeuncountableAlternative spelling of eugenocide.

    Some doctors practiced passive eugenicide one newborn infant at a time.

    2013, Arthur L. Caplan, Robert Arp, Contemporary Debates in Bioethics, →ISBN
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    In his place remains Yaweh's best friend, Noah (Dr. Noyes), a cruel patriarch guilty of infanticide, eugenicide, humanitarian abuse, animal cruelty and incest, who rules tyrannically over his wife, their three sons and their sons' wives, one of whom, Hannah, he has impregnated, and upon whom he has begotten a throwback, an ape-child who is immediately put to death.

    2011, Maria Manuel Lisboa, The End of the World: Apocalypse and Its Aftermath in Western Culture, →ISBN, page 173

    The most commonly suggested method of eugenicide in America was a "lethal chamber" or public locally operated gas chambers.

    2012, Trent Goodbaudy, The Rebirth of Mankind: Homo Evolutis, →ISBN, page 31
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