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Definition of Feticides
1. feticide [n] - See also: feticide
Lexicographical Neighbors of Feticides
Literary usage of Feticides
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1910)
"I presume that the legislature has been under the impression that most feticides
are coincident with the producing of abortion. ..."
2. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1870)
"His style has many feticides which are peculiar, and by which he contrives to
elevate the humblest themes. Delicacy, brevity, and simplicity are its general ..."
3. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor by Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1850)
"... to manifest the reasonableness, and to invite and determine our choice to such
graces which are circumscribed with feticides, which have blessedness in ..."
4. The Novels of Jane Austen by Jane Austen (1892)
"High in the rank of her most serious and heartfelt feticides was the reflection
that all necessity of concealment from Mr Knightley would soon be over. ..."
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