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单词 self-slayer
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self-slayern.

Brit. /ˌsɛlfˈsleɪə/, U.S. /ˌsɛlfˈsleɪər/
Forms: see self- prefix and slayer n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: self- prefix, slayer n.1
Etymology: < self- prefix + slayer n.1Compare Old English self-bana (compare bane n.1), self-cwala (compare quele v., quell v.1), self-myrðra (compare murther n.1), all in the same sense.
A person who commits suicide.
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the world > life > death > killing > person who commits suicide > [noun]
self-slayera1500
self-murderer1606
self-killer1624
autocide1635
self-destroyera1646
felon-de-se1648
felo-de-se1651
suicide1658
self-homicide1681
suicidist1814
suicider1841
a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Nero) vi. l. 856 Þe selff slaar, þe kynge Grym, Succedit.
1614 S. Jerome Moses his Sight of Canaan 174 The Tragicall fals and fearefull ends of Semicidian selfe-slayers.
1690 C. Ness Compl. Hist. & Myst. Old & New Test. I. 212 Thou art..a felo-de-se or self-slayer.
1754 Two Diss. i. 13 The Self-slayer prevents the Executing the temporal Sentence of Punishment mentioned.
1825 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 12 Nov. 408 They have, since Castlereagh cut his own throat, relieved self-slayers from the disgrace of the cross-road burial.
1845 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 2) 254 Let it not be said He sought his God in the self-slayer's way.
1912 M. Hill Georgette xiii. 295 ‘I was going to kill myself.’ Suicide talk,..of which she was properly skeptical, never stirred any chord of mercy in her. The self-slayer goes silently. ‘Why did n't you, then?’ she demanded scornfully.
1949 San Antonio (Texas) Light 19 July 8- a/2 The growing hordes of neurotics and little tyrants, self-mutilators and self-slayers.
2006 L. Abse Bi-sexuality D. Defoe vi. 63 Divining the same motivation within the murderer and the self-slayer, society declares them both criminals.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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