Feticide
noun
noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The killing of a fetus or embryo; an induced abortion. countable, uncountable
"Zimra, then, takes an unequivocal stance; favoring Rashi's view over that of Maimonides, he offers little comfort for the rodef approach, holding instead that feticide cannot be regarded as murder becaue the fetus is not a nefesh."
- 2 the act of destroying a fetus wordnet
- 3 One who kills a fetus. countable, uncountable
Example
More examples"Zimra, then, takes an unequivocal stance; favoring Rashi's view over that of Maimonides, he offers little comfort for the rodef approach, holding instead that feticide cannot be regarded as murder becaue the fetus is not a nefesh."
Etymology
From fetus + -cide or fetus + -icide, from Middle French -cide, from Latin -cīda (“cutter, killer”) and its derivation -cīdium (“killing”), from -cīd (combining form of caedō (“cut, kill”)) + -a (“-er”, forming agent nouns).