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Self-abuse
Definitions
- 1 Self-deception. countable, obsolete, uncountable
"Come, wee’l to ſleepe: My ſtrange & ſelf-abuſe Is the initiate feare, that wants hard vse: We are yet but yong indeed."
- 2 manual stimulation of your own genital organ for sexual pleasure wordnet
- 3 Physical or verbal maltreatment of oneself. countable, uncountable
"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."
- 4 Physical or verbal maltreatment of oneself.; Injury inflicted deliberately upon oneself, especially resulting from a mental disorder. countable, uncountable
"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 at all rare."
- 5 Masturbation, regarded as sinful or harmful. countable, dated, euphemistic, uncountable
"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 Infect∣ion; by every one of which cauſes the Glands are always more or leſs ſtretched, weakned and debilitated"
- 1 To harm oneself.
- 2 To masturbate. dated, euphemistic
Etymology
From self- + abuse. Compare self-abusing (adj.).
From self- + abuse. Compare self-abusing (adj.).
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