self-murder

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English

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Etymology

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From self- +‎ murder. Compare German Selbstmord, Dutch zelfmoord, Swedish självmord.

Noun

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self-murder (countable and uncountable, plural self-murders)

  1. 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.
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