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self-abuse

noun

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /sɛlfəˈbjuːs/

noun

Etymology: From self- + abuse. Compare self-abusing (adj.).

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. Physical or verbal maltreatment of oneself.

    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.

    Well I lost control and hurt myself I knew deep down that I needed some help This self-abuse, it would not stop, No matter how hard I tried

  4. 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 or leſs ſtretched, weakned and debilitated

    The vice consists in any excitement of the genital organs produced otherwise than in the natural way. It is known by the terms, self-pollution, self-abuse, masturbation, onanism, manustupration, voluntary pollution, solitary or secret vice, and other names sufficiently explanatory.

verb

Etymology: From self- + abuse. Compare self-abusing (adj.).

  1. To harm oneself.
  2. To masturbate.