self-deˈstroyer
[self- 1 c.]
One who is the cause of his own destruction.
| 1657 Baxter Call to Unconverted (1666) 215 It's apparent that you are self-destroyers, in that you draw the matter of your sin and destruction even from the blessed God himself. 1713 [see self-flatterer]. |
b. A suicide.
| 1654 Whitlock Zootomia 376 No man is Master of his own Body, and therefore selfe-destroyers have not common buriall. 1826 W. E. Andrews Fox's Cal. Prot. Saints 473 Fox being in want of a saint-martyr thought proper to canonize a self-destroyer. 1886 Stevenson Dr. Jekyll viii. (1895) 84 By the crushed phial in the hand..Utterson knew that he was looking on the body of a self-destroyer. |
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self-deˈstroying vbl. n. and ppl. a.| 1612 W. Sclater Sick Souls Salve 29 Lust, murther, *selfe destroying. 1687 Boyle Martyrd. Theodora Pref. (1703) 21 St. Jerome..speaks of the unlawfulness of self-destroying. |
| 1645 Rutherford Tryal & Tri. Faith 127 To kill high thoughts of a *self-destroying sinner. a 1699 J. Beaumont Psyche vii. cxxviii. (1702) 96 Driving the self-destroying Trade of Sin. 1713 M. Henry Ordination Serm. Wks. 1857 II. 501/1 This perishing self-destroying people. 1820 Shelley Prometh. Unb. iv. 249 With the force of self-destroying swiftness. |