self-immolation
- voluntary sacrifice or denial of oneself, as for an ideal or another person.
Origin of self-immolation
Related Words for self-immolation
persecution, pain, distress, torture, agony, sacrifice, ordeal, torment, affliction, crucifixion, mortification, anguish, devotion, self-sacrifice, seppuku, disembowelment, agonizing, self-immolationExamples from the Web for self-immolation
Contemporary Examples of self-immolation
Or is it “a beautiful flare of ruin, self-immolation, disaster?”
In higher-income countries, self-immolation was rare and most often carried out by males, many of whom had a psychiatric history.
Tibet, Persecution, and Marital Shame: Why People Burn Themselves to DeathKent Sepkowitz
December 12, 2012
Kent Sepkowitz looks at the centuries-long practice of self-immolation—and why it persists from India to Vietnam to Iran.
Tibet, Persecution, and Marital Shame: Why People Burn Themselves to DeathKent Sepkowitz
December 12, 2012
Self-immolation has been around for centuries, having been intermittently practiced by protesting monks in the East.
Tibet, Persecution, and Marital Shame: Why People Burn Themselves to DeathKent Sepkowitz
December 12, 2012
It was as dramatic and cringe-worthy a self-immolation as I've ever seen.
Daily Beast Contributors Weigh In on the GOP DebateNovember 12, 2011
Historical Examples of self-immolation
Self-immolation were easy in comparison with the infliction of one pang on her.
Evenings at Donaldson ManorMaria J. McIntosh
Even if this reads like slavery or self-immolation, what do you care?
The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 (of 4)W. Grant Hague
He could but recognize a baleful nobility in her self-immolation.
The Confounding of CameliaAnne Douglas Sedgwick
The words fell chillingly on the blaze of her self-immolation.
SanctuaryEdith Wharton
These acts of self-immolation were esteemed exceedingly meritorious.
The Student's MythologyCatherine Ann White
self-immolation
- the act or an instance of setting fire to oneself
Word Origin and History for self-immolation
also self immolation, 1817, from self- + immolation.