Synonyms for hara-kiri
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : hahr-uh-keer-ee, har-uh-, har-ee- |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈhɑr əˈkɪər i, ˈhær ə-, ˈhær i- |
Définition of hara-kiri
Origin :- "suicide by disembowelment," 1856, from Japanese, literally "belly-cutting," the colloquial word for what is formally called seppuku "cut open the stomach;" from hara "belly" + kiri "to cut."
- noun ritual suicide
- He was attending a lesson in hara-kiri taken by his young son.
- Extract from : « The Usurper » by Judith Gautier
- The hara-kiri was of course a last resort, but it was an honorable death.
- Extract from : « Japanese Girls and Women » by Alice Mabel Bacon
- So it was not without cause that they were taught at school the hara-kiri.
- Extract from : « The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4, July, 1851 » by Various
- The performance of hara-kiri carried with it certain privileges.
- Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 » by Various
- I seemed fully to sympathize with the Japanese view of hara-kiri.
- Extract from : « Adrift on an Ice-Pan » by Wilfred T. Grenfell
- After some days the boy died, and Kujuro was condemned to hara-kiri.
- Extract from : « Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic » by Sidney L. Gulick
- In old days the ceremony of hara-kiri used to be performed in a temple.
- Extract from : « Tales of Old Japan » by Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford
- The ceremonies observed at the "hara-kiri" of a Daimio's retainer.
- Extract from : « Tales of Old Japan » by Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford
- To boys there is given special training in the hara-kiri, or the art of ripping one's self up.
- Extract from : « The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4, July, 1851 » by Various
- Hara-kiri is hara-kiri, and the private performance is even more ghastly than the official one.
- Extract from : « From Sea to Sea » by Rudyard Kipling
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