单词 | self-created |
释义 | self-createdadj. Created by oneself or through one's own actions, rather than any external factor or agency. Also: that has brought itself into being. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > [adjective] > created or produced > by oneself self-made?1574 self-wrought1586 self-created1606 self-devised1608 self-formed1642 self-making1660 self-generating1745 self-create1766 autogenous1826 self-fashioned1833 autogenic1852 autogeneal1864 1606 W. Warner Continuance Albions Eng. xv. xcv. 379 Hels stratagemous Quintessence, Romes selfe-created Foe. 1677 R. Gilpin Dæmonol. Sacra iii. xvii. 125 That God promiseth to keep him in his ways, but not in self-created dangers. 1767 J. H. Fussli Remarks on Rousseau viii. 12 Rousseau was above displaying self-created poverty. 1780 Ess. Mod. Martyrs 9 These are the self-created martyrs, the self-proclaimed martyrs, who court the public favour. 1802 E. Parsons Myst. Visit III. 198 The self-created distinction of polished society. 1815 W. Price Hist. Oswestry 78 Napoleon Buonaparte, the self-created emperor of the French. 1871 R. H. Hutton Ess. I. iv. 72 The particular, partly self-created, character of Gibbon's mind. 1928 W. Deeping Old Pybus xix. 215 To them she was not a fastidious, self-created, individual woman, but a thing in petticoats. 1990 Sciences Nov. 49/1 A humble miller named Menocchio announced that the natural world was self-created. 2011 N.Y. Mag. 14 Nov. 13 Holtzman's self-created field is based on the study of hands. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1606 |
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