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单词 self-fashioning
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self-fashioningn.

Brit. /ˌsɛlfˈfaʃ(ə)nɪŋ/, U.S. /ˌsɛlfˈfæʃ(ə)nɪŋ/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: self- prefix, fashioning n.
Etymology: < self- prefix + fashioning n. Compare self-fashioned adj., self-fashioning adj.
The action or process of changing or shaping something through one's own efforts or according to one's own wishes. Now more usually: the action or process of constructing one's own identity or public image. Also: an identity constructed in this way.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > self-creation
self-creation1659
self-formationa1713
self-fashioning1832
autofacture1868
1832 T. Carlyle in Foreign Q. Rev. Aug. 14 A will is cast abroad into the widest, wildest element, and gifted also in an extreme degree, to prevail over this, to fashion this to its own form: in which subordinating and self-fashioning of its circumstances, a character properly consists.
1901 E. L. Arnold Lepidus the Centurion xv. 268 Has this little span of life down here exhausted all your capacities of self-fashioning?
1933 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 53 (end matter) (advt.) The author sets himself the task..of making the self-fashioning of Greek Man the object of a new general study of Greek culture.
1980 S. Greenblatt Renaissance Self-fashioning iii. 116 Theological self-fashioning..cannot be long separated from secular self-fashioning.
2015 J. L. Roberts in J. Davis et al. Compan. Amer. Art ii. 37 For the New Historicist, there are no selves, just self-fashionings.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

self-fashioningadj.

Brit. /ˌsɛlfˈfaʃ(ə)nɪŋ/, U.S. /ˌsɛlfˈfæʃ(ə)nɪŋ/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: self- prefix, fashioning adj.
Etymology: < self- prefix + fashioning adj. Compare self-fashioned adj., self-fashioning n.
That makes or forms itself; (of a person) that constructs his or her own identity or public image. Also: having or involving the capacity to do this.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > creation > [adjective] > creating, fashioning, shaping, or forming > self-creating
self-creating1650
self-making1686
self-creative1704
self-fashioning1829
1829 T. Carlyle in Foreign Rev. Dec. 130 We must not forget that Art belongs to Nature; that it is, so to speak, self-viewing, self-imitating, self-fashioning Nature.
1858 J. E. Reade Light of Other Days II. xv. 166 She possessed that self-fashioning will that made and trod its own path.
1913 F. H. Hedge tr. J. G. Fichte in K. Francke & W. G. Howard German Classics 19th & 20th Cent. V. 65 Here it [sc. life] streams, as self-creating, self-fashioning matter, through my veins and muscles.
1967 D. Bakan On Method (1969) xii. 129 If you allow that man is a self-fashioning being, then psychoanalysis comes in to deal with man in articulation with his self-fashioning potentiality.
2005 Guardian (Nexis) 25 May 24 The individual is now a self-fashioning creature, whose supreme achievement is to treat himself as a work of art.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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