suicism

English

Etymology

Latin suus (“one's own”), +‎ -ism.

Noun

suicism (uncountable)

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

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “suicism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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