selfslaughter

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English

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Particularly: “Specifically without the hyphen”

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Etymology

1595, self- +‎ slaughter.

Noun

selfslaughter (plural selfslaughters)

  1. Alternative form of self-slaughter ("suicide").
    • 1989, Bill Greenwell, “Hector Berlioz: The Trojans”, in E. O. Parrott, editor, How to Be Tremendously Tuned In to Opera, London: Viking, →ISBN, page 13:
      As the Greeks gape at women heaped up in selfslaughter, / They hear of Aeneas's flight with the loot.
      Referencing events from the second act of Berlioz's Les Troyens.
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