单词 | self-slayer |
释义 | self-slayern. A person who commits suicide. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.a1500 |
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