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It's the self-infliction that worries me: we made two of Liverpool's three goals for them.

From The Guardian • Mar. 23, 2013

It is not properly a self-infliction," answered Carlton; "self-infliction implies intention; grief at sin is something spontaneous.

From Loss and Gain The Story of a Convert by Newman, John Henry

The great need of her heart compelled her to strangle, with desperate resolution, every rising impulse of suspicion, pride, and resentment; she felt equal to any self-infliction that would save her from ceasing to love.

From Romola by Eliot, George

Although Mosheim uses the term "fraud," it would seem that he means rather the irresponsible self-infliction of the wounds.

From A Short History of Monks and Monasteries by Wishart, Alfred Wesley

It is answered by the fact, that it was proved, from the nature of the wounds, in both cases, that self-infliction was impossible.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861 by Various