self-killern.
/ˌsɛlfˈkɪlə/, U.S. /ˌsɛlfˈkɪlər/ A person who commits suicide. Cf. suicide n.2 1.
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self-slayera1500
self-murderer1606
self-killer1624
autocide1635
self-destroyera1646
felon-de-se1648
felo-de-se1651
suicide1658
self-homicide1681
suicidist1814
suicider1841
1624 J. Penkethman tr. Epigrams P. Virgilius Maro & Others xix. sig. C3 The Maid selfe-killer.
1658 Sir T. Browne Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall iv. 60 No Reliques of Traitors to their Countrey, Self-killers, or Sacrilegious Malefactors.
1786 Caveat against Suicide 15 The person who is guilty of this unnatural crime, by laying violent hands of himself, is felo de se, a self-killer.
1823 Statesman 23 Apr. The only self-killer, who has, since the affair of Castlereagh, been found to have been guilty of self-murder.
1875 Daily Rocky Mountain News (Denver) 21 Oct. The pains taken by the self-killers to render their exit dramatic.
1937 Daily Capital News (Jefferson City, Missouri) 3 Sept. 8/1 Business depression swells the number of self-killers, while prosperity lessens the number that find life unbearable.
1962 L. Berkowitz Aggression xi. 322 There is relatively little agreement among authorities as to..how the potential self-killer should be treated.
2008 Irish Independent (Nexis) 18 Nov. The putative self-killer might consider that, in death, he could possibly be given an acclaim that he felt he was denied in life.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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