单词 | self-fashioned |
释义 | self-fashionedadj. Created, developed, or brought about by oneself. Cf. self-made adj. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > [adjective] > created or produced > by oneself self-made?1574 self-wrought1586 self-created1606 self-devised1608 self-formed1642 self-making1660 self-generating1745 self-create1766 autogenous1826 self-fashioned1833 autogenic1852 autogeneal1864 1833 Dublin Univ. Mag. Sept. 273/2 The proud soarings of the truly philanthropic unbeliever should not be stayed by the dread that—Icarus-like—the self-fashioned wings may be molten in the ray of any divine presence. 1859 Le Follet Nov. 86/2 To our spectacled sight, our own private, confidential, individual, self-created, self-fashioned world appears vast as the whole scheme of creation. 1908 ‘K. Mansfield’ Jrnl. May (1954) 37 We are firmly held with the self-fashioned chains of slavery. 1954 W. F. Zornow Lincoln & Party Divided xvi. 205 The President was a humble, self-fashioned man of the people. 2007 TDR 51 158/2 The statement epitomizes an American ideal that is still cultivated: valuing simplicity, hard work, self-fashioned success. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1833 |
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