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self-deˈstroyer
[self- 1 c.]
One who is the cause of his own destruction.
1657Baxter Call to Unconverted (1666) 215 It's apparent that you are self-destroyers, in that you draw the matter of your sin and destruction even from the blessed God himself. 1713[see self-flatterer].
b. A suicide.
1654Whitlock Zootomia 376 No man is Master of his own Body, and therefore selfe-destroyers have not common buriall. 1826W. E. Andrews Fox's Cal. Prot. Saints 473 Fox being in want of a saint-martyr thought proper to canonize a self-destroyer. 1886Stevenson Dr. Jekyll viii. (1895) 84 By the crushed phial in the hand..Utterson knew that he was looking on the body of a self-destroyer.
So self-deˈstroying vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1612W. Sclater Sick Souls Salve 29 Lust, murther, *selfe destroying. 1687Boyle Martyrd. Theodora Pref. (1703) 21 St. Jerome..speaks of the unlawfulness of self-destroying.
1645Rutherford Tryal & Tri. Faith 127 To kill high thoughts of a *self-destroying sinner. a1699J. Beaumont Psyche vii. cxxviii. (1702) 96 Driving the self-destroying Trade of Sin. 1713M. Henry Ordination Serm. Wks. 1857 II. 501/1 This perishing self-destroying people. 1820Shelley Prometh. Unb. iv. 249 With the force of self-destroying swiftness. |