self-slaughter
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Origin of self-slaughter
First recorded in 1595–1605
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True, the major soliloquies are not the tortured revelations of a soul in anguish but merely philosophical ruminations; it seems unlikely that this spirited man would opt for self-slaughter.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 15, 2025
What did Peter say after Iscariot's squalid self-slaughter?
From The Guardian • Apr. 7, 2011
Although the Friends profess deep reverence for human life, their doctrine includes no specific condemnation of suicide; most Quakers were content to let God judge Morrison's self-slaughter.
From Time Magazine Archive
Cowardly in himself, his love for Chris Blanchard was too great to suffer even the shadow of self-slaughter to tempt him at the present moment.
From Children of the Mist by Phillpotts, Eden
The Church had offered her priest no alternative between the world and the cloister,—self-indulgence and self-slaughter.
From Robert Browning by Herford, C. H. (Charles Harold)
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