Antonyms for self
| Grammar : Adj, noun |
| Spell : self |
| Phonetic Transcription : sɛlf |
Definition of self
Origin :- Old English self, seolf, sylf "one's own person, -self; own, same," from Proto-Germanic *selbaz (cf. Old Norse sjalfr, Old Frisian self, Dutch zelf, Old High German selb, German selb, selbst, Gothic silba), Proto-Germanic *selbaz "self," from PIE *sel-bho-, suffixed form of root *s(w)e-, pronoun of the third person and reflexive (referring back to the subject of a sentence), also used in forms denoting the speaker's social group, "(we our-)selves" (see idiom).
- Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth. [Alan Watts]
- Its use in compounds to form reflective pronouns grew out of independent use in Old English. As a noun from early 14c.
- adj individual
- noun being
- And when that reason offers, is it not just to express one's self accordingly?
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
- Self-government relies, in the end, on the governing of the self.
- Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
- Why, inside two weeks he'll be fit as a fiddle, and inside a month he'll be his own self!
- Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
- As to some of the others, I cannot wonder at any thing they do, or attempt to do, where self is concerned.
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
- It is little use telling one's self that one's fear is silly.
- Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
- Mention some ways in which this commandment is broken with respect to self.
- Extract from : « An Explanation of Luther's Small Catechism » by Joseph Stump
- I call on you, dear Alicia, for congratulations: I am my own self, gay and triumphant!
- Extract from : « Lady Susan » by Jane Austen
- These men were as forlorn and miserable as my self, death grinning in our faces at every turn.
- Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
- "Nobody ever opposed Eudora Yates except her own self," replied Abby.
- Extract from : « The Yates Pride » by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
- (b) A subjection of her self, her appetites and will to her husband and his will.
- Extract from : « The First Blast of the Trumpet against the monstrous regiment of Women » by John Knox
Synonyms for self
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