单词 | self-homicide |
释义 | self-homiciden. rare after 17th cent. The action of taking one's own life; suicide; an instance of this. Cf. self-murder n. 1.In quot. ?1608 in figurative context. ΘΚΠ 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 ?1608 J. Donne Lett. (1651) 36 That more single [duellism], and almost self-homicide, between the unconformed Ministers, and Bishops. 1621 G. Hakewill King David's Vow 308 Selfe homicide, the destroying of a mans selfe. 1659 W. Charleton Ephesian Matron 31 Of all Murders, the most detestable was self-Homicide. 1709 E. Ward Writings IV. 216 Tho a Divine, he justify'd The Freedom of self Homicide. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 371 Self-homicide occasionally occurs in melancholia. 1964 Rev. Relig. Res. 5 104/1 Donne..argued that self-homicide was a sin against the law of self-preservation, but no more. 2007 Guardian (Nexis) 28 July 29 He felt such contempt for himself that he didn't simply want to kill himself, he wanted to commit the most violent self-homicide. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > as lemmasself-homicide 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 1681 H. Neville Plato Redivivus 212 So that for the Parliament to seek to take from him such Authority, were to be felo de se, as we call a self-Homicide. < n.?1608 as lemmas |
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