Noun:

बालहत्या करने वाला, शिशुघातक, बाल हतया, शिशुहत्या,

infanticide's Usage Examples:

Many of these are girls abandoned by their families female infanticide is still an issue.

vii., he speaks of " the sacrament of infanticide and of the eating of a murdered child and of incest following the banquet," the crimes of which the Christians were commonly accused.

To prevent the breaking down of their properties, the necessary consequence of this law of inheritance, there is no doubt that infanticide was common among them, and that it extended to the male as well as the female progeny, but it has been put down by the Infanticide Rules, which provide for the registration of Jareja children.

Infanticide was universally recognized.

Everywhere infanticide prevailed; in some of the smaller islands it was regulated by law in order to prevent over-population.

As among their kinsfolk the Tahitians, debauchery was systematized and infanticide an organized institution.

Thus the Brahmans were offended at the prohibition of suttee and female infanticide, the execution of Brahmans for capital offences, the re-marriage of widows, the spread of missionary effort and the extension of Western education.

They value children, and seldom practised infanticide, and cannibalism was rare.

did much to suppress infanticide, suttee and the slave trade in his state.

The southern and western peoples still practise infanticide as regards children born on several unlucky days in each month.

Synonyms:

liquidator, manslayer, murderer,