self-abuse
/sɛlfəˈbjuːs/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.56 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Come, wee’l to ſleepe: My ſtrange & ſelf-abuſe Is the initiate feare, that wants hard vse: We are yet but yong indeed."
- "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."
- "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"
- "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."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /sɛlfəˈbjuːs/