Self-abuse

Quick meaning: Self-abuse is a noun meaning Physical or verbal maltreatment of oneself.

Meaning

Physical or verbal maltreatment of oneself.

More Meanings

1. To harm oneself.
2. (obsolete) Self-deception.
3. (dated, euphemistic, now frequently ironic or humorous) Masturbation, regarded as sinful or harmful.
4. (dated, euphemistic, now frequently ironic or humorous) To masturbate.

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.

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.

Self-abuse is undoubtedly an evil in itself, because it is incomplete and unnatural, and sad is his state who has bound himself with the chains this vice can so deftly forge; but its chief danger is that it so quickly and easily becomes a habit, and then it is indulged beyond the power of the body to recuperate.

Word Forms

• self-abuses
• self-abusing
• self-abused

Synonyms for self-abuse

Depending on context, synonyms include self-pollution, ipsation, manustupration, mastupration, masturbation, onanism.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include masturbation, onanism, self-deceit, self-defilement, self-deception, abuse.

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