self-slaughter love

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The killing of oneself; suicide.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The slaughter of one's self.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Suicide.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The slaughter or slaying of one's self, suicide.

Etymologies

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1595, self- +‎ slaughter, possibly taken as a shortening of the phrase against self-slaughter ("slaughter against one's self"). Compare Old English seolfcwala ("suicide"), Old English āgenslaga ("suicide").

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Examples

  • One in every 100 deaths is the result of what Hamlet called self-slaughter, and the vast majority who die that way are male.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Allison Pearson 2011

  • One in every 100 deaths is the result of what Hamlet called self-slaughter, and the vast majority who die that way are male.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Allison Pearson 2011

  • From the Kinzer piece: This shocking act of self-slaughter was the latest violent tragedy in the long history of a family drenched in blood—first that of the Iranians it tortured and killed, then its own.

    Story pick: The Shah's son kills himself Marc Fisher 2011

  • Yet a group of emo teenagers merely rolled their eyes (whereas at least one journalist considered an emo-style act of self-slaughter), but respectfully waited for their beloved Stewart and Colbert to return, which they did, with merciful speed.

    Jon Stewart rally: moderation breaks out in Washington crowd Hadley Freeman 2010

  • Suicide, which Shakespeare called “self-slaughter” and which is known in Christian teaching as “the sin against the Holy Ghost,” occupies a very different place in the imagination of the West than it does in Japan, where self-disembowelment with a specialized blade has long been considered a proper response to shame or dishonor.

    Let’s Die Together 2007

  • It is the atmospheric horror of a fish-belly white sky that has driven me over and over to the brink of self-slaughter.

    Texas Weather | clusterflock 2009

  • Suicide, which Shakespeare called “self-slaughter” and which is known in Christian teaching as “the sin against the Holy Ghost,” occupies a very different place in the imagination of the West than it does in Japan, where self-disembowelment with a specialized blade has long been considered a proper response to shame or dishonor.

    Let’s Die Together 2007

  • I was, though, not convinced either that Mr. Law's prince was genuinely suicidal, or that he was bothered by the religious prohibition of self-slaughter.

    'Artist Princes' Painted Germany's Rise and Fall 2009

  • Suicide, which Shakespeare called “self-slaughter” and which is known in Christian teaching as “the sin against the Holy Ghost,” occupies a very different place in the imagination of the West than it does in Japan, where self-disembowelment with a specialized blade has long been considered a proper response to shame or dishonor.

    Let’s Die Together 2007

  • Suicide, which Shakespeare called “self-slaughter” and which is known in Christian teaching as “the sin against the Holy Ghost,” occupies a very different place in the imagination of the West than it does in Japan, where self-disembowelment with a specialized blade has long been considered a proper response to shame or dishonor.

    Let’s Die Together 2007

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  • a perfectly brutal euphemism for suicide.

    December 30, 2007