1844 Evangelical Guardian Jan. 341 However metaphysicians decide the question [of free will]..the stiffest fatalists and self-determinists..will..conduct the whole business of life, on the same principles.

1913 O. O. Fletcher Introd. Philos. xxxviii. 370 Jonathan Edwards leaves us uncertain as to whether he should be accounted a self-determinist or a determinist.

1956 Ames (Iowa) Daily Tribune 18 June 9/1 The tragic murder of an American vice-consul by Cypriot extremists may make moderate self-determinists more ready to listen to compromise talk.

1973 Amer. Scholar Winter 124/1 It is absolutely spurious for a statesman to claim that he is not interested in actively determining the forces that shape his nation,..on the grounds that he is a self-determinist and that individuals must be left to determine their own destiny.

2016 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 12 Jan. 4 As a..Scottish self-determinist, I felt the last thing I needed was a pro-Unionist plea from a south London bloke who had long resided in New York.

1907 H. Rashdall Theory of Good & Evil II. iii. 328 Now let us assume that we have accepted Determinism in the ‘Self-determinist’ sense: what ethical consequences will such an acceptance involve?

1931 A. Keith Place of Prejudice in Mod. Civilization 49 This separatist (self-determinist) movement is stirring the blood of peoples.

1965 Arizona Republic 5 Sept. c17 The self-determinist attitude of those Reid termed ‘conservative’.

2016 Jrnl. Afr. Amer. Hist. 101 227 The Black Catholic movement expressed the self-determinist values of the black experience in the United States.