单词 | self-essence |
释义 | self-essencen. Existence of a being, person, etc., by virtue of intrinsic nature, independently of any other cause (= self-existence n.); (formerly also occasionally) †a being having such existence (obsolete). Sometimes also: the essential nature of the self. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > [noun] > independent or self-existence > one who has independent or self-existence self-essence1548 beer1587 self-being1587 noun substantive1592 independent1675 1548 J. Véron Certayne Litel Treat. sig. Div By the heade of god we ought to vnderstand, ye very same selfe essence or beynge, of his diuine godheade..vnto whom al thynges are subiecte. 1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. i. xiii. f. 37 The Worde and the Spirite are nothyng els but the very selfe essence of God [L. ipsam Dei essentiami]. 1644 K. Digby Two Treat. ii. Concl. 463 That..proceedeth..from the bounteous hand of the nothing annihilating selfe essence. 1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV ii. iv. 269 Not properly Essence in that manner as the Creature is, but..superessential or transcendent Essence, self-Essence, self-Eternitie. 1825 Gospel Advocate 1 Feb. 5/2 ‘Jehovah’, a word in the singular number, denoting the self-existence, or rather the self-essence of Deity. 1869 Jrnl. Speculative Philos. 2 238/2 This law, to show myself as an essence to him, who does not treat me as self-essence..changes itself through the principle of the other world. 1920 Proc. Aristotelian Soc. 20 162 Çūnya is simply an insistence that all things have no self-essence. 1967 T. Chün-i in C. Moore Chinese Minds (1968) 205 The existing thing has no self-nature or self-essence to sustain its existence. 2000 Jrnl. N.Z. Lit. 18 123 Malfred's psychic journey is towards the acceptance of her meaningful self-essence and the concomitant acceptance of death. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1548 |
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