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Webster 1913 Edition

Onanism

O′nan-ism

,

Noun.

[

Onan

(

Gen. xxxviii. 9

): cf. F.

onanisme

.]

Self-pollution; masturbation.

Webster 1828 Edition

Onanism

O'NANISM

,

Noun.

[from Onan, in Scripture.] The crime of self-pollution.