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self-annihilation
[ self-uh-nahy-uh-ley-shuhn, self- ]
noun
- self-destruction; suicide.
- surrender, abnegation, or immolation of the self in mystic contemplation of or union with God.
self-annihilation
noun
- the surrender of the self in mystical contemplation, union with God, etc
Word History and Origins
Origin of self-annihilation1
Example Sentences
So she has to be perfect and self-sacrificing to the point of self-annihilation.
Self-annihilation of necessity cramps their activity, or gives it a false direction.
So that the mystics are utterly wrong when they fancy that self-sacrifice can be attained by self-annihilation.
There will be then, not indeed a certainty, but an equal chance of definitive self-annihilation and eternal repose.
It is only thus that we can become free—by a circumlocutory process of self-abnegation, self-sacrifice and self-annihilation.
This is not to deny that many women are capable of the greatest devotion and sacrifice, even to the point of self-annihilation.
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