suicism

noun — 2 senses

suicism

noun

Etymology From Latin suus (“one's own”) + -ism.

1

Obsolete Selfishness; egoism.

  • This Peece, or Schisme of Suicisme, and Selfishnesse, hath spawned most of the Heresies and Schismes, that are abroad in the World.1654, Richard Whitlock, Zootomia; Or, Observations on the Present Manners of the English:
2

Obsolete Suicide.

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