单词 | self-murdering |
释义 | self-murderingadj. That commits or has committed suicide; suicidal. Also of a thought, action, etc.: causing or capable of causing death; deadly.Usually with condemnatory force. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > suicide > [adjective] self-murdering1590 self-violent1640 suicidical1739 suicidal1794 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. x. sig. Mm8v Through long anguish, and selfe-murdring thought. 1692 W. Marshall Gospel-Myst. Sanctif. x. 182 The wicked persecuting self-murdering Jaylor, [Acts 16:31]. 1755 F. Ayscough Disc. against Self-murder 10 As our Saviour saith of his Self-murdering Disciple, it would have been better for him, that he had never been born. 1828 S. Nott Appeal to Temperate iii. 85 Chilled by the damps of night, with no intervening consciousness between the last self-murdering draught, and his sudden coming to the bar of God. 1904 J. Street Mynster of Ile xii. 341 The burial of a self-murdering soldier..aroused indignation. 2007 L. J. Nicoletti in L. A. Phillips Mighty Mass of Brick & Smoke ii. 7 Victorians were inundated with images of self-murdering women. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1590 |
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