self-murder
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From self- + murder. Compare German Selbstmord, Dutch zelfmoord, Swedish självmord.
Noun
[edit]self-murder (countable and uncountable, plural self-murders)
- Suicide.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
- My mind being by these means grown as desperate as my fortune, there was scarce a wickedness which I did not meditate, in order for my relief. Self-murder itself became the subject of my serious deliberation; and I had certainly resolved on it, had not a more shameful, though perhaps less sinful, thought expelled it from my head.