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
On they march, though to self-slaughter, Regular as rolling water, Whose high-waves o'ersweep the border Of huge moles, but keep their order,20 Breaking only rank by rank.
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley
He would have told me that in those days, as far as the Romans knew, "the Everlasting had not fixed His canon 'gainst self-slaughter."
From The Fixed Period by Trollope, Anthony
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