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Self [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. . or pron . plural selves ; used chiefly in composition.

2. In old authors, this sometimes signifies particular, very, or same. 'And on tham sylfan geare; ' in that same year, that very year. Sax . Chron . adjective D. 1052, 1061.

3. Shoot another arrow that self way. Shak .

4. On these self hills. Raleigh .

5. At that self moment enters Palamon. Dryden .

6. In this sense, self is an adjective, and is now obsolete, except when followed by same ; as on the self-same day; the self-same hour; the self-same thing; which is tautology.

7. In present usage, self is united to certain personal pronouns and pronominal adjectives, to express emphasis or distinction; also when the pronoun is used reciprocally. thus, for emphasis, I myself will write; I will examine for myself ; Thou thyself shalt go; thou shalt see for thyself ; You yourself shall write; you shall see for yourself . He himself shall write; he shall examine for himself . She herself shall write; she shall examine for herself . The child itself shall be carried; it shall be present itself .

8. Reciprocally, I abhor myself ; thou enrichest thyself ; he loves himself ; she admires herself ; it pleases itself ; we value ourselves ; ye hurry yourselves ; they see themselves . I did not hurt him, he hurt himself ; he did not hurt me, I hurt myself .

9. Except when added to pronouns used reciprocally, self serves to give emphasis to the pronoun, or to render the distinction expressed by it more emphatical. 'I myself will decide, ' not only expresses my determination to decide, but the determination that no other shall decide.

10. Himself , herself , themselves , are used in the nomnative case, as well as in the objective.

11. Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples. See Matthew 23:4 .

12. Self is sometimes as a noun, noting the individual subject to his own contemplation or action, or noting identity of person. Consciousness makes everyone to be what he call self .

13. A man's self may be the worst fellow to converse with in the world. Pope .

14. It also signifies personal interest, or love of private interest; selfishness.

15. The fondness we have for self - furnishes anothe long rank of prejudices. Watts .

16. Self is much used in composition.

Self [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Same; particular; very; identical.

Self [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The individual as the object of his own reflective consciousness; the man viewed by his own cognition as the subject of all his mental phenomena, the agent in his own activities, the subject of his own feelings, and the possessor of capacities and character; a person as a distinct individual; a being regarded as having personality.

2. Hence, personal interest, or love of private interest; selfishness; as, self is his whole aim.

3. Personification; embodiment.

Self-abased [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

. [ self and abase .] Humbled by conscious guilt or shame.

Self-abased [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Humbled by consciousness of inferiority, unworthiness, guilt, or shame.

Self-abasement [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

. Humiliation or abasement proceeding from consciouness of inferiority, guilt or shame.

Self-abasement [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Degradation of one's self by one's own act.

2. Humiliation or abasement proceeding from consciousness of inferiority, guilt, or shame.

Self-abasing [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

. Humbling by the consciouness of guilt or by shame.

Self-abasing [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Lowering or humbling one's self.

Self-abhorrence [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Abhorrence of one's self.

Self-abnegation [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Self-denial; self-renunciation; self-sacrifice.

Self-abuse [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

. [ self and abuse .] The abuse of one's own person or powers.

Self-abuse [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The abuse of one's own self, powers, or faculties.

2. Self-deception; delusion.

3. Masturbation; onanism; self-pollution.

Self-accused [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Accused by one's self or by one's conscience.

Self-accusing [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

. [ self and accuse .] Accusing one's self; as a self-accusing look.

Self-acting [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Acting of or by one's self or by itself; -- said especially of a machine or mechanism which is made to perform of or for itself what is usually done by human agency; automatic; as, a self-acting feed apparatus; a self-acting mule; a self-acting press.

Self-action [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Action by, or originating in, one's self or itself.

Self-active [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Acting of one's self or of itself; acting without depending on other agents.

Self-activity [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

. [ self and activity .] Self-motion, or the power of moving one's self without foreign aid.

Self-activity [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The quality or state of being self-active; self-action.

Self-adjusting [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Capable of assuming a desired position or condition with relation to other parts, under varying circumstances, without requiring to be adjusted by hand; -- said of a piece in machinery.

Self-admiration [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

. Admiration of one's self.

Self-admiration [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Admiration of one's self.

Self-admiring [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

. Admiring one's self.

Self-affairs [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

SELF-AFFA'IRS , n . plu . [ self and affair .] One's own private business.

Self-affairs [Noun plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One's own affairs; one's private business.

Self-affrighted [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

. [ self and affright .] Frightened at one's self.

Self-affrighted [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Frightened at or by one's self.

Self-aggrandizement [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The aggrandizement of one's self.

Self-annihilated [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Annihilated by one's self.

Identity Roget’s Thesaurus §13

N. identity, sameness, coincidence, coalescence, convertibility, equality, selfness, self, oneself, identification, monotony, tautology, facsimile, homoousia, alter ego, ipsissima verba, same, self, very, one and the same, very thing, actual thing, real mccoy, no other, one and only, in the flesh

V. be identical, coincide, coalesce, merge, treat as the same, render the same, identical, identify, recognize the identity of

Adj. identical, self, ilk, the same, selfsame, one and the same, homoousian, coincide, coalescent, coalescing, indistinguishable, one, equivalent, tweedle dee and tweedle dum, much the same, of a muchness, unaltered

Adv. identically, on all fours

Speciality Roget’s Thesaurus §79

N. {opp. 78} speciality, specialite, individuality, individuity|, particularity, peculiarity, idiocrasy, personality, characteristic, mannerism, idiosyncrasy, specificness, singularity, reading, version, lection, state, trait, distinctive feature, technicality, differentia, particulars, details, items, counts, minutiae, i, self, i myself, myself, himself, herself, itself

V. specify, particularize, individualize, realize, specialize, designate, determine, denote, indicate, point out, select, descend to particulars, enter into detail, go into detail, come to the point

Adj. special, particular, individual, specific, proper, personal, original, private, respective, definite, determinate, especial, certain, esoteric, endemic, partial, party, peculiar, appropriate, several, characteristic, diagnostic, exclusive, singular, idiomatic, idiotypical, typical, this, that, yon, yonder

Adv. specially, especially, particularly, in particular, in propria persona, ad hominem, for my part, each, apiece, one by one, one at a time, severally, respectively, each to each, seriatim, in detail, in great detail, in excruciating detail, in mind-numbing detail, bit by bit, pro hac vice, pro re nata, namely, that is to say, for example, id est, exemplia gratia, e.g, i.e, videlicet, viz, to wit

Phr. le style est l'homme meme, 5, order as regards categories

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Genesis 7:13

In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;

On that very day Noah entered the ark, along with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and his wife, and the three wives of his sons—

Genesis 17:23

And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham’s house; and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said unto him.

On that very day Abraham took his son Ishmael and all those born in his household or purchased with his money—every male among the members of Abraham’s household—and he circumcised them, just as God had told him.

Genesis 17:26

In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son.

Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised on the same day.

Genesis 49:6

O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.

May I never enter their council; may I never join their assembly. For they kill men in their anger, and hamstring oxen on a whim.

Exodus 12:17

And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever.

So you are to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I brought your divisions out of the land of Egypt. You must keep this day as a permanent statute for the generations to come.

Exodus 12:41

And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.

At the end of the 430 years, to the very day, all the LORD’s divisions went out of the land of Egypt.

Exodus 12:51

And it came to pass the selfsame day, that the LORD did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.

And on that very day the LORD brought the Israelites out of the land of Egypt by their divisions.

Exodus 32:13

Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever.

Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, to whom You swore by Your very self when You declared, ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give your descendants all this land that I have promised, and it shall be their inheritance forever.’”

Leviticus 23:14

And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

You must not eat any bread or roasted or new grain until the very day you have brought this offering to your God. This is to be a permanent statute for the generations to come, wherever you live.

Leviticus 23:21

And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.

On that same day you are to proclaim a sacred assembly, and you must not do any regular work. This is to be a permanent statute wherever you live for the generations to come.

Deuteronomy 32:48

And the LORD spake unto Moses that selfsame day, saying,

On that same day the LORD said to Moses,

Joshua 5:11

And they did eat of the old corn of the land on the morrow after the passover, unleavened cakes, and parched corn in the selfsame day.

The day after the Passover, on that very day, they ate unleavened bread and roasted grain from the produce of the land.

Psalms 49:13

This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.

This is the fate of the self-confident and their followers who endorse their sayings. Selah

Proverbs 12:9

He that is despised, and hath a servant, is better than he that honoureth himself, and lacketh bread.

Better to be lightly esteemed yet have a servant, than to be self-important but lack food.

Proverbs 18:1

Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom.

He who isolates himself pursues selfish desires; he rebels against all sound judgment.

Ezekiel 40:1

In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in the selfsame day the hand of the LORD was upon me, and brought me thither.

In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month—in the fourteenth year after Jerusalem had been struck down—on that very day the hand of the LORD was upon me, and He took me there.

Matthew 8:13

And Jesus said unto the centurion, Go thy way; and as thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee. And his servant was healed in the selfsame hour.

Then Jesus said to the centurion, “Go! As you have believed, so will it be done for you.” And his servant was healed at that very hour.

Matthew 23:25

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.

Luke 9:25

For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?

What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet lose or forfeit his very self?

John 5:30

I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.

I can do nothing by Myself; I judge only as I hear. And My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.