单词 | self-immolation |
释义 | self-immolationn. The action of offering oneself as a sacrifice, esp. by burning; the deliberate causing of harm or damage to oneself for the sake of something or someone else. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrifice or a sacrifice > kinds of sacrifice > [noun] > of self self-sacrifice1535 self-immolation1799 1799 H. Neuman tr. A. von Kotzebue (title) Self immolation; or, the sacrifice of love [Ger. Der Opfertod]. 1844 J. H. Stocqueler Hand-bk. India 154 The suttee, or self-immolation of widows upon the funereal pile. 1898 G. B. Shaw Perfect Wagnerite 95 Her self immolation on the pyre. 1961 D. G. James Matthew Arnold iii. 57 The omission of it [sc. Empedocles on Etna] from the 1853 volume..was a fine piece of self-immolation. 2015 R. E. McGeough & D. D. McGeough in C. Palczewski Disturbing Argument xiii. 99 Be it hunger strikes, self-immolation, or chopping off one's fingers, photographing images of deliberate self-harm is an extreme approach to obtaining social or economic redress. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1799 |
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