单词 | self-creating |
释义 | self-creatingadj. That brings himself, herself, or itself into existence; of, relating to, or bringing about self-creation. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > [adjective] > creating, fashioning, shaping, or forming > self-creating self-creating1650 self-making1686 self-creative1704 self-fashioning1829 1650 S. Gott Ess. True Happines Man ii. iv. 155 Rather turn back into the bosome of Nature, and ascribe this self-creating power..to those lowest and meanest things, then to an infinite and eternall Creator. 1655 R. Robinson Saints Longings after Heavenly Country 22 The gross prophaneness of these Nick-named, Self-creating-Saints. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VII. 43 As the muscle is thus furnished with a kind of self creating power, there are few places where it breeds that it is not found in great abundance. 1822 Morning Post 9 Mar. The practical Protecting System of Commerce and the self-creating System of Finance which I advocate. 1861 W. Gresley Sophron & Neologus 68 The Cosmist asks for a proof of the existence of the Great Spirit; he calls on us to prove that the world is not self-existent, self-creating. 1919 Philos. Rev. 28 586 Jurists are showing us law as endlessly self-creating. 1955 Mich. Alumnus Q. Rev. 26 Feb. 142/1 Never wholly passive, but rather self-assertive, self-continuing, self-creating—‘Man is but man’. 1983 New Scientist 23 June 873/2 This profound question of a self-creating Universe which somehow bootstraps itself into existence. 1998 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 26 Mar. 17/1 The pen name under which he journeyed out into the world..was a self-creating, self-embellishing stroke. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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