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1636 A. Cowley Poet. Blossomes (ed. 2) sig. E2 Let the selfe-gotten Phœnix rob his nest.

a1649 S. Crook Τα Διαϕεροντα (1658) i. xxxiv. 538 The hypocrite bragging of his rich store of self-gotten riches.

1822 Leeds Correspondent Jan. 39 As the latter are usually spending self-gotten fortunes, they have more at their immediate disposal than hereditary possessors.

1926 Youth's Compan. 1 July 476/1 The troubles of the golfer differ widely from the pitfalls and snares of any other sport in that they are all self-gotten; the wounds are all self-inflicted.

1940 W. H. D. Rouse tr. Nonnos Dionysiaca I. 181 The allwhite stone of Selene, which..waxes when Mene..milks out the self-gotten fire of Father Helios.

2010 E. Stump Wandering in Darkness x. 248 Samson takes God's gift of strength for granted, as if it were self-gotten.