单词 | self-creative |
释义 | self-creativeadj. Capable of self-creation; self-creating. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > [adjective] > creating, fashioning, shaping, or forming > self-creating self-creating1650 self-making1686 self-creative1704 self-fashioning1829 1704 W. Darrell Gentleman Instructed iii. 58 Unless we defeat his charitable Designs, by Impatience or Blasphemy, and by a strange self-creative Power turn his Blessings into Curses. 1768 P. Thicknesse Useful Hints Tour of France xxx. 262 There is a self-creative power in the water, which cannot be extinguished. 1845 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 2) 12 Thy might is self-creative. 1898 J. R. Illingworth Divine Immanence i. 7 We are, in a measure, self-creative, causes of ourselves. 1941 Rotarian Dec. 34/2 A keen civic conscience is not self-creative or self-renewing. It is the product of constant effort. 1992 H. Collins Mutagenesis 249 Like the phoenix, we are self-creative. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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