self-consciousnessn.

1646 W. Price Mans Delinquencie 6 Shame hath its sourse within, caused either by self-consciousnesse, when a guilty soul sweats with reflecting on it self: Or, from a piercing apprehension of others unworthinesse.

1692 R. Bentley Matter & Motion cannot Think 15 A distinct Animal, endued with self-consciousness and personal sensation of its own.

1694 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding (new ed.) ii. xxvii. 185 Appropriated to me now by this self-consciousness.

1722 W. Wollaston Relig. of Nature 184 That, which in man is the subject or suppositum of self-consciousness, thinks, and has the foresaid faculties, must be something different from his body or carcass.

1839 Western Messenger Feb. 33 Now, first awakened to self-consciousness, Humanity is moving on, with new speed and conscious aims, to the fulfilment of its high calling.

1874 G. H. Lewes in Contemp. Rev. Oct. 689 Philosophy must be regarded in the light of a continuous history of Self-consciousness.

1915 Mind 24 191 This principle of self-consciousness resolves itself into various principles, which are all connected with one another in a peculiar non-temporal, non-factual way.

1987 W. Percy Thanatos Syndrome (1988) i. iv. 22 It is not only the major speech center but, according to neurologists, the locus of self-consciousness, the ‘I’, the utterer.

2008 Nature 11 Sept. p. xi Traditionally, such ‘metacognition’ has been thought to be the hallmark of self-consciousness and unique to primates.

1655 T. Fuller Life out of Death 20 In all humility therefore, and selfe consciousness of our own infirmities, we commend to sick people these following motives to patience.

1675 J. Smith Christian Relig. Appeal ii. 5 Self-consciousness to the closest Villany.

1698 R. Boulton Exam. Mr. J. Colbatch Bks. 55 I rather think he had a Self-consciousness of his own Falsness, and, like guilty Persons, did not know how to conceal it.

1752 Earl of Orrery Remarks Swift (ed. 2) xiii. 106 With only the self consciousness of deserving a rank among the companions of Brutus in the Elysian fields.

1798 Mort Castle i. 29 A self-consciousness of acting well, had ever been his comfort on reflection.

1803 Naval Chron. 9 193 Constitutional pride, popular favour, and the self-consciousness of no ordinary degree of merit, had rendered Vernon, naturally of a lofty disposition, arrogant, and unaccommodating.

1867 J. L. Motley Hist. United Netherlands III. xxxii. 383 A considerable republic had been evolved as it were involuntarily..almost without self-consciousness that it was a republic.

1898 Appletons' Pop. Sci. Monthly Sept. 637 The resultant national self-consciousness of brute strength is ever prone to lead a government to aggressive acts both at home and abroad.

1971 Bull. Atomic Scientists May 21/1 The only way to deal with it is..through the increase of self-consciousness of the nature of these evils.

1985 R. Gascoigne Relig., Rationality & Community i. 35 The unquestioning obedience and cultural uniformity of the ancient world had given way to man's self-consciousness of his own rights as an individual.

1833 J. S. Mill Let. 25 Nov. in Wks. (1963) XII. 195 A man singularly free, if we may trust appearances, from self-consciousness.

1851 C. Kingsley Yeast ii. 37 It sweeps away that infernal web of self-consciousness, and absorbs me in outward objects.

1932 G. Greene Stamboul Train i. i. 5 Her body..even while stumbling..retained its self-consciousness.

1973 Times Lit. Suppl. 18 May 544/2 The middle-aged on the beaches clearly felt no self-consciousness in wearing little paper nose-caps as protection from the sun.

2014 T. McMahon Kilometer 99 viii. 59 A wave of self-consciousness washed over me..and forced me to feel silly for the self-invitation.

1932 Jrnl. Philos. 29 26 His writing is..delightfully free from self-consciousness and unrealistic artfulness.

1964 R. Church Voy. Home v. 71 The dreadful self-consciousness of so many déraciné Americans, aping the hyper-civilized European decadents.

2015 Guardian (Nexis) 11 Dec. Much of Perry's other work is overburdened by self-consciousness and faux seriousness.