self-slaughter
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of self-slaughter
First recorded in 1595–1605
Example Sentences
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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
For, in unwonted purlieus, far and nigh, At whiles or short or long, May be discerned a wrong Dying as of self-slaughter; whereat I Would raise my voice in song.
From Poems of the Past and the Present by Thomas Hardy
We are of the opinion of Hamlet that God has "fixed his canon 'gainst self-slaughter."
From Caesar's Column by Ignatius Donnelly
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