单词 | self-immolated |
释义 | self-immolatedadj. That has sacrificed or killed oneself, now esp. by setting fire to oneself as a form of protest. Often figurative and in figurative contexts. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > suicide > [adjective] > having committed suicide self-slaughtered1594 self-murdered1598 self-killed1609 self-slain1615 self-immolated1799 suicided1841 1799 Sketches Mod. Life II. 140 ‘He surely meditates suicide.’.. He beheld his friend the self-immolated victim. 1815 Xerxes the Great iv. i. 31 I'll hazard all for love;..And..die, Self-immolated to unconquerable passion. 1902 S. E. Rogers Free Lance of Streets iv. 123 The self-immolated victim on the altar of filial devotion bore herself with heroic courage. 1917 K. H. M. Diver Unconquered vi. 65 A Viking self-immolated on the deck of his blazing barque. 1965 A. T. Bouscaren Last of Mandarins viii. 100 Referring to the self-immolated monk, the London Economist..commented: ‘The macabre incident..suggests a kind of religious fanaticism.’ 1990 Washington Post 20 Nov. b1/6 Investigators were able to determine only that the self-immolated body was that of a white man. 2008 Social Res. 75 546 Those self-immolated protesters..viewed themselves as the rightful representative of oppressed people. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1799 |
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