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self-forˈmation [self- 1 a.] Formation or production without extraneous aid; self-development of the mind or character.
a1713Shaftesbury Charac. (1723) III. 139 note, The natural Production, and Self-Formation of the Arts. 1837[C. Lofft] (title) Self-Formation; or, the history of an individual mind. So self-formed ppl. a.
a1700[see self-steer'd s.v. self- 2 a]. 1711Shaftesbury Charac. III. 139 With them every noble Study and Science was..self-form'd [tr. αὐτοσχεδιαστική]. 1787Hawkins Life Johnson 52 A character self-formed, as owing nothing to parental nurture, and scarce anything to moral tuition. 1834Newman in Lyra Apost. (1849) 55 Whose spirits live..Each in his self-formed sphere of light or gloom. 1844W. H. Mill Serm. Tempt. Christ v. 125 A vain and self-formed assurance. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. VI. I. 319 Self-formed bands of volunteers started into being. |