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self-ˈevidence
[self- 1 d.]
a. Evidence of its own truth.
b. The quality or condition of being self-evident.
1682Bunyan Holy War 16 There is not a word but carries with it self-evidence in its Bowels. 1690Locke Hum. Und. iv. vii. §3 'Tis plain, that several other Truths, not allow'd to be Axioms, partake equally with them in this Self-evidence. 1692Norris Curs. Reflect. 5 He resolves that ready..assent which is given to certain Propositions upon their Proposal, into the Self-Evidence of them. 1796Coleridge Let. in Biog. Lit. (1847) II. 352 He deems that there is a certain self-evidence in Infidelity, and becomes an Atheist by intuition. 1885J. Martineau Types Eth. Th. II. 478 [Hutcheson's] writings..fetched back into the light of self-evidence many a generous trait of inward experience. 1898Illingworth Div. Immanence iv. §3. 87 The personality of Jesus Christ is its own self-evidence.
So self-ˈevidencing ppl. a., providing itself the evidence of its own truth; hence self-ˈevidencingly adv.
1658–9Owen (title) Of the Divine Originall, Authority, *Self-Evidencing Light, and Power of the Scriptures [etc.]. 1681J. Flavel Meth. Grace vi. 118 The native clearness of self-evidencing principles. 1862M'Cosh Supernat. in relat. to Natural ii. i. §3. 133, I believe that the truths revealed in Scripture are so self-evidencing [etc.]. 1890Spectator 6 Sept., The self-evidencing character of intrinsic divinity.
1882–4Grosart Spenser I. 191 The Poet was *self-evidencingly a man of moods. |