单词 | self-killing |
释义 | self-killingn. The action or an act of taking one's own life; suicide. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > suicide > [noun] self-violence1532 self-slaughter1533 self-murder1570 self-destruction1572 self-death1583 self-killinga1586 self-homicide?1608 self-destroying1612 self-blood1621 suicide1643 autoctony1652 selfcide1692 suicism1751 suicidism1756 felo-de-se1771 felony-de-se1822 suicidalism1833 a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. xxiv. sig. Xx4v, (heading) Amphialus—his death-panges and selfe-killing. 1619 E. M. Bolton in tr. Florus Rom. Hist. To Rdr. 4 Heathen, with whom..selfe-killing, to auoid disgrace, seemed an high point of true magnanimitie. 1680 J. Collinges Defensative Armour 72 The persons final act of Self-killing was not his or her Act; but the Effect of Melancholy..working in him. 1711 C. More Apol. or Vindic. Sir C. More 16 Habitual Lunacy, and the more fatal Acts of Incompetency, viz. Self-killing, and the like. 1819 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 17 Apr. 931 When the self-killing is clear, the only question for the Coroner's Jury to decide, is, whether the party was sane, or insane. 1891 Current Lit. Oct. 235 Spanish suicides..have sought death by starvation, perhaps owing to a conscientious prejudice against a more violent form of self-killing. 1968 Washington Post 14 Dec. c1/1 Although the majority of self-killings..are committed with guns, a ‘suicide’ reason is often difficult to determine. 2011 J. W. Traphagan in Y. Matsumoto Faces of Aging iv. 90 It is surprising how little attention is given to the manner in which self-killing is conceptualized in different cultures. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1586 |
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