self-infliction
- a word derived from self-inflicted.
Example Sentences
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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
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
The physician finds them under the most unexpected circumstances at times and in patients apparently above all suspicion of their self-infliction.
From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
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
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
