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[ noun ] the act of killing yourself

Examples

"it is a crime to commit suicide"

Used in print

(Schubert Ogden, Christ Without Myth....)

Expressed differently : if the price for becoming a faithful follower of Jesus_Christ is some form of self-destruction , whether of the body or of the mind - sacrificium corporis , sacrificium intellectus - then there is no alternative but that the price remain unpaid .

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[ noun ] the act of destroying yourself

Examples

"his insistence was pure self-destruction"

Related terms

destruction self-destroy

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