self-annihilation
self-destruction; suicide.
surrender, abnegation, or immolation of the self in mystic contemplation of or union with God.
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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.
Solomon Maimon: An Autobiography. | Solomon MaimonSo that the mystics are utterly wrong when they fancy that self-sacrifice can be attained by self-annihilation.
Daily Thoughts | Charles KingsleyThere will be then, not indeed a certainty, but an equal chance of definitive self-annihilation and eternal repose.
History of Modern Philosophy | Alfred William BennIt is only thus that we can become free—by a circumlocutory process of self-abnegation, self-sacrifice and self-annihilation.
Discourses of Keidansky | Bernard G. Richards
This is not to deny that many women are capable of the greatest devotion and sacrifice, even to the point of self-annihilation.
Women in Modern Industry | B. L. Hutchins
British Dictionary definitions for self-annihilation
the surrender of the self in mystical contemplation, union with God, etc
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