self-culturen.
/ˌsɛlfˈkʌltʃə/, U.S. /ˌsɛlfˈkəltʃər/ The cultivation or development of one's mind, faculties, manners, etc., by one's own efforts; = self-cultivation n.
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society > education > [noun] > self-education
self-culture1747
self-cultivation1766
self-education1782
1747 tr. F. Hutcheson Short Introd. Moral Philos. i. iii. 71 It is by means of a proper self-culture that we must be prepared for any honourable services to God or mankind.
1851 J. Sterling Let. 10 Nov. in T. Carlyle Life J. Sterling i. vii. 66 I have no doubt that, by practice and self-culture, she will be a far finer actress.
1859 J. R. Lowell Dante in New Amer. Cycl. VI. 254/1 From being the slave of his imaginative faculty, he rose by self-culture and force of will to that mastery of it which is art.
1926 B. Webb My Apprenticeship ii. 60 A device of my own for self-culture—reading the books of my free choice.
1973 Times 20 Mar. 16/1 (advt.) A seven-step process of an intensive form of self-culture, suitable for believers and non-believers, is suggested in order to deepen and broaden the consciousness.
2015 T. J. Williams Intellect. Manhood 197 Students tackled big issues that fit the adult roles they imagined and idealized in formal education and informal self-culture.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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