Meanings
nounneonaticide (countable and uncountable, plural neonaticides)
plural neonaticides
- countableuncountableThe murder of a newborn within 24 hours of birth.
But critics of the law said mothers who immediately kill their babies after giving birth, a practice known as neonaticide, are usually in deep denial about their pregnancies.
2007 February 4, Cara Buckley, “Brooklyn Girl Threw Away Her Newborn Son, Police Say”, in New York Times - countableuncountableThe murderer of a newborn (anyone who practices or who has practiced this kind of murder).
Origin
Translations
French néonaticide, néonaticide
- néonaticidemurderer of a newborn
- néonaticidemurder of a newborn
German Neonatizid, Neugeborenentötung
- Neonatizidmurder of a newborn
- Neugeborenentötungmurder of a newborn
Portuguese neonaticida, neonaticídio
- neonaticidamurderer of a newborn
- neonaticídiomurder of a newborn
Urdu نو مولود کشی
- نو مولود کشی (nau maulūd kuśī)murder of a newborn
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Chicago
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