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self-evoˈlution
[self- 1 a.]
Evolution of oneself (itself) by one's (its) own power.
1857Kingsley Lett. (1877) II. 39 The idea of self-evolution in a story. 1883Bible Myths (ed. 2) 369 In the progress of still further self-evolution, he [Brahma] willed to invest himself with the second quality of goodness, as Vishnu.
So self-eˈvolved, -eˈvolving ppl. adjs.
1856R. A. Vaughan Mystics (1860) I. 34 Their *self-evolved inexplicable explanations of everything. 1862Spencer First Princ. i. ii. §11 (1867) 32 A symbolic conception of a self-evolved Universe.
1852Bailey Festus 526 Each heart lit up with *self evolving joy. 1871Times 5 Apr. 3/1 The presumption that Man is but a term in this self-evolving series. |