self-abuse
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self-abuse
- /sɛlfəˈbjuːs/ UK
Where it comes from
From self- + abuse. Compare self-abusing (adj.).
noun self-abuses
- Self-deception. Come, wee’l to ſleepe: My ſtrange & ſelf-abuſe Is the initiate feare, that wants hard vse: We are yet but yong indeed.
- Physical or verbal maltreatment of oneself. No man hath any warrant for self-abuse: We are not nostri, sed alieni juris; and God will see we shall not destroy his work besides his will.
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Injury inflicted deliberately upon oneself, especially resulting from a mental disorder.
If such conversion surgery is not readily available, which is normally the case, owing to the many legal dangers attendant to the operation(s), the transsexual may well attempt self-castration, other mutilations and even suicide, or fall into a reactive psychosis. Such self-abuse is apparently not a
Similar: self-harm
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Masturbation, regarded as sinful or harmful.
For which reaſon it is that a Gleet is always more or leſs difficult to Cure, as it is of greater or leſs Continuance, or is occaſioned by more or leſs Frequent ſelf Abuſes, or a more or leſs virulent Humor which gave the preceeding Infection; by every one of which cauſes the Glands are always more
Similar: self-pollution, beat one's meat, celebrating Palm Sunday, choking the chicken, ham shank, hand shandy, Hand Solo, ipsation, jacking off, jerking off, lone rangering, manustupration
verb self-abuses · self-abusing · self-abused
- To harm oneself.
- To masturbate.
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