1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. i. sig. Cc4^v Full easy was for her to haue beliefe, Who by self-feeling of her feeble sexe,..Could iudge what paines doe louing harts perplexe.

1687 Christendom ii. 4 So much holy Faith in Christ, so much holy Self-knowledg, Self-perception, Self-feeling, and Self-intuition.

1694 W. Sherlock Def. Notion of Trinity in Unity 39 There must be a self..before this Self can feel it Self, and by this Self-feeling distinguish Himself from all other Selfs.

1840 F. A. Rauch Psychology ii. 262 The nature of instinct proceeds, as we have seen, from self-feeling; for without feeling itself, a being cannot feel want.

a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1660) vii. iii. 340 The more..all Self-feeling, Self-love, and Self-sufficiency pine away, the more is true Faith fed and nourished.

1760 Ess. Present State Theatre i. 4 All fellow-feeling has its source in self-feeling.

1863 Jrnl. Mental Sci. Apr. 3 He is the victim of a great self-feeling or egoism, and cannot by any means forget himself.

1895 Pop. Sci. Monthly Sept. 653 Self-feeling, a germ of the feeling of ‘my worth’ enters into this early passionateness.

1920 D. W. La Rue Psychol. for Teachers xvii. 297 Many are egocentric, paranoid, have too much self-feeling.

1983 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 89 404 Emotions are temporally embodied self-feelings which arise from emotional social acts persons..have directed toward them.

2006 Victorian Stud. 48 553 The Romantic..infatuation with self-feeling, is figured as a kind of pubescent madness from which Victorian maturity and adulthood emerge.

1798 A. Crichton Inq. Mental Derangem. I. iii. 110 (heading) On the sense called caenesthesis, or self feeling.

1835 J. Young Lect. Intell. Philos. ix. 81 Dr. Crichton gives an account of a sense called by some German writers Cœnesthesis or self-feeling.

1902 D. R. Brower & H. M. Bannister Pract. Man. Insanity iv. 61 It [sc. loss of the sense of personal identity] has its grounding in the self-feeling, or rather lack of it, of the individual.

2014 J. Davies Bodily Pain in Romantic Lit. i. 28 Self-feeling, Crichton believes, comes more strongly to our attention, when we are subjected to the pains of coenaesthesis.

1908 G. A. Coe in Hibbert Jrnl. Jan. 365 [In self-hypnosis] First, the bodily sensations were modified... Second, the self-feeling underwent an equally marked change. It seemed as if the self melted into its object.

1972 H. A. Williams True Resurrection iii. 94 It is intolerable to live without self-feeling, with no sense of identity.

2006 Amer. Sociologist 37 87 Trilling..defines ‘authenticity’ as a prediscursive and internally felt state of being (one's own self-feeling).

1595 L. Lewkenor Estate Eng. Fugitives sig. Qiii^v Guiltie to his owne minde of an inward selfe feeling cowardise.

1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. C2 Self-feeling Autæsthesia.

1761 Dialogue occasion'd by Miss F—d's Let. 13 Each of the Company view the Object in Distress with that Kind of self-feeling Preservation, that we feel, when we behold from the secure Shore, our Fellow-creatures tossed in a tempestuous and dangerous Sea.

1844 C. A. L. Robertson & H. Maudsley Insanity & Crime 32 It must be difficult..to avoid a suspicion that the elaborate and perverse reasoning did not dictate the crime, but was afterwards made the justification of a self-feeling and vain mortal.

1950 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 15 143/1 The part-brain, or self-feeling affect, is deliberately suppressed so as to release the whole larger self.

2011 R. D. Winfield Living Mind iv. 81 The self-feeling infant mind can exist both without and before consciousness.