self-slaughtern.
/ˌsɛlfˈslɔːtə/, U.S. /ˌsɛlfˈslɔdər/ The action of taking one's own life; suicide.
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the world > life > death > killing > suicide > [noun]
self-violence1532
self-slaughter1533
self-murder1570
self-destruction1572
self-death1583
self-killinga1586
self-homicide?1608
self-destroying1612
self-blood1621
suicide1643
autoctony1652
selfcide1692
suicism1751
suicidism1756
felo-de-se1771
felony-de-se1822
suicidalism1833
1533 T. More 2nd Pt. Confut. Tyndals Answere iv. p. lvii Glotony, couetyse, & pryde, deuyll worshyp and selfe slaughter.
1567 G. Turberville tr. Ovid Heroycall Epist. vi. 39 Let hir go rangle lyke a Rogue and by selfeslaughter die.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Hamlet (1623) i. ii. 132 Oh..that the Euerlasting had not fixt His Cannon 'gainst Selfe-slaughter [1604 seale slaughter].
1649 H. Hammond Vindic. Addresse 10 Those Lawes of our Land, which have look'd on this selfe-slaughter, as an inhumane crime.
1743 R. Blair Grave 23 Just reeking from Self-slaughter, in a Rage To rush into the Presence of our Judge!
1761 ‘S. Hughes’ Adventures xxv. 211 He informed me likewise of Miss Church's Death, and told me the Manner of it; that it had been by Self-Slaughter.
1842 I. Williams Baptistery I. i. 69 All the shapes of death were seen, Robbers, fell beasts, disease, Self-slaughter's murderous mien.
1897 Daily Tel. 6 Oct. 10/6 The horrible self-slaughter by religious fanatics.
1935 T. S. Eliot Murder in Cathedral i. 45 Senseless self-slaughter of a lunatic.
1976 B. Palmer Body Weather 25 His evidence tends to confirm the study in Philadelphia, indicating ‘cluster days’ of attempted self-slaughter.
2007 Times (Nexis) 19 June 17 The black hypocrisy of cheating husbands, punished women, blackmail, misery and self-slaughter.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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