infanticide:
(plural: ‘infanticides‘; pronunciation: the first and the second ‘i’ rhyme with the letter ‘i’ in “ink”, the third ‘i’ rhymes with the word “eye” — for the right pronunciation of this word, please click here)
a person who kills infants, usually for religious, racial or political reasons,
two infanticides — women in the act of killing infants by throwing them in a canal in the middle ages
Mike was accused of being an infanticide for allegedly killing his three children, one of which is an infant.
According to historians, the prostitutes in Greek and Roman cultures were infanticides who killed their babies for fear of their getting in their way of making a living.
Though there are many cases of infanticide, the act of killing babies, connived by societies and some religions, the infanticides, those kill their babies for different reasons, are punished severely in public if caught doing the atrocious act by the same societies and religions!
