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self-deˈstructive, a.
[self- 1 e.]
Having the property of destroying or annulling itself (or each other).
1654H. L'Estrange Chas. I (1655) 80 The Commons..imagined it would make the Petition so much Royalist, as it would signifie nothing..and would prove felo de se, self-destructive. 1699Shaftesbury Charac., Inq. conc. Virtue ii. §2 How mischievous and self-destructive Anger is. 1723Blackmore Alfred Pref. p. xvii, Moral Evil and the divine Nature are contradictory and self-destructive Idea's. 1864Bowen Logic xiii. 420 Any Reasoning..by which we might attempt to doubt or deny the validity of our Intuitions, would be self-destructive.
Hence self-deˈstructively adv., self-deˈstructiveness.
1851Kingsley Yeast v, They cannot be intended to compete self-destructively with each other. 1733A. Baxter Enq. Human Soul vi. xlv. 267 Nothing is a mark of impossibility, but a self-destructiveness in the idea. 1977J. D. Douglas in Douglas & Johnson Existential Sociol. i. 46 Self-hatred and the resulting self-destructiveness pervades the lives of the poor. |