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单词 self-laceration
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self-laceration
self-laceration n.
Brit. /ˌsɛlflasəˈreɪʃn/
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U.S. /ˌsɛlfˌlæsəˈreɪʃ(ə)n/
the action or an act of lacerating oneself, esp. as a religious ritual; (frequently, and in earliest use, figurative and in figurative contexts) extreme or excessive self-criticism.
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1684 R. Baxter Catholick Communion sig. A2v Is there no hope, that the World, at least the Learned part, may be healed of this self-laceration and distraction.
1811 J. Pratt in R. Cecil Wks. II. 407 (note) A dreadful description indeed of the barbarous self-lacerations, practised both by the Mexicans and Tlascalans, in the discharge of their religious duties.
1892 E. A. Abbott Anglican Career Cardinal Newman I. vii. 151 This savage, sarcastic self-laceration which, if persisted in, would result in moral and spiritual suicide.
1932 Amer. Jrnl. Semitic Lang. 48 80 There is an abundance of evidence of the practice of ritual self-laceration among the Hebrews in connection with the fertility cult.
2014 Sunday Times (Nexis) 21 Sept. 3 Confessional tones, with bowed head and supplicant hands—no self-pity, but not too much self-laceration either.
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