animalicide
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editanimalicide (countable and uncountable, plural animalicides)
- (uncommon) The killing of an animal (also used historically and offensively for the killing a person who is regarded as subhuman).
- 1918, Herbert Adams Gibbons, The New Map of Africa (1900-1916): A History of European Expansion and Colonial Diplomacy, page 349:
- One French functionary drew distinction between homicide and animalicide. In his opinion, Toqué and Gaud were merely guilty of animalicide.
- 1919, Journal of Education, page 455:
- […] a case of animalicide, not homicide.
- 2021, Patrick Conley, A Convocation of Five, AuthorHouse, →ISBN:
- […] nothing under traffic accidents, nothing under runovers, nothing under traffic accidents, nothing under animalicide. Yeah, I guess that Tom didn't.