self-deliverance

American  

[self-di-liv-er-uhns] / ˈsɛlf dɪˈlɪv ər əns /

noun

1. suicide.

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Etymology

Origin of self-deliverance

First recorded in 1990–95

Example Sentences

In the end, McCarthy makes an urgent appeal to the ideas of Black agency and Black self-deliverance: “What of our magnificent insistence that we will pull this country into righteousness and justice by our own hands, by our own words and deeds and witness, by any means necessary?”

From Washington Post

The more real and oppressive the fit of fear the more enjoyable is the subsequent self-deliverance by a perspicacious laugh likely to be.

From Project Gutenberg

And yet,—wholly inadequate as such a system as this, even at its purest and best, must be to meet the needs of humanity,—false and even debased as are sometimes its teachings,—the one great message that Buddhism proclaims is a message of undeniable, if most imperfect, truth: the truth that would have man cultivate self-reliance, and attain to self-deliverance by means of self-control.

From Project Gutenberg

Then a mad hope invaded her; and, slowly, patiently, she began the work of self-deliverance.

From Project Gutenberg

He thanked God in his heart for his self-deliverance; though he shuddered at the manner in which it was wrought.

From Project Gutenberg