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self-made, ppl. a.
[self- 2.]
Made by oneself, one's own action or efforts; of one's own making.
self-made man, one who has risen from obscurity or poverty by his own exertions. (orig. U.S.)
1615Daniel Hymen's Tri. Poems (1717) 119 Worshipping A Nothing, but his self-made Images. 1832Reg. Deb. Congr. U.S. 2 Feb. 277 In Kentucky,..every manufactory..is in the hands of enterprising self-made men. 1854Dickens Hard T. i. iv. 18 Mr. Bounderby..could never sufficiently vaunt himself a self-made man. 1858C. C. B. Seymour (title) Self-made Men. 1860Pusey Min. Proph. 422 Self-made blindness. 1870Lowell Study Wind., Gt. Publ. Char., We are fond in this country of what are called self⁓made men. 1870–2Liddon Elem. Relig. iv. §1 (1904) 136 As a self-made devil differs from an angel. 1890Spectator 25 Jan., Wealth, if it be self-made.
¶ Used as pa. pple. with predicative n.
1784Cowper Tiroc. 837 Men..Design'd by nature wise, but self-made fools.
Hence self-ˈmaking vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1883Blackw. Mag. 247 The process of self-making..is one of the most interesting at which it is possible to look. 1892Q. Rev. Oct. 326 The ideal to which the average self-making Englishman continues to look up. |