单词 | self-rule |
释义 | self-rulen. 1. Control or rule of one's own affairs, actions, emotions, etc.; (in later use) spec. self control. Now rare.In earlier use often with negative connotations. ΚΠ 1532 R. Whitford Pype or Tonne f. cxx I promitte or promyse: nat the selfe rule (I say) but obedience after or accordyng vnto the rule of saynt Benet or saynt Augustyne. 1579 J. Jones Arte preseruing Bodie & Soule i. xl. 90 They neyther feare God, nor obey man..putting their blinde beliefe..in selfe rule, fickle fortune, and blind chance. 1619 W. Wiseman Christian Knight sig. Kk2v My reason telleth me, that none is ouerthrown but by self-rule. 1679 S. Slater Creation, Fall & Recov. of Man in Poems in Two Parts 34 Husbands, away with jealousies, you must Love wives with dearness, but not overtrust Them with self-rule. 1746 W. Stevenson True Patriot's Wishes 28 May his bright Example recommend to all Princes the strictest Probity, Self-rule, Benevolence, Humility, and an unwearied Zeal for the common Welfare! 1853 G. Steward Princ. Church Govt. i. iv. 69 Self-rule is descriptive of creatures that move by instinct, or mechanical necessity... It is rather a doctrine of impulse. 1884 M. Guthrie On Mr Spencer's data of Ethics vii. 105 Has man the power of choice amongst motives? Has he the vaunted power of self-rule? 1986 J. Feinberg Harm to Self xix. 55 If, for example, the boundaries of my legitimate self-rule are determined by..moralism and paternalism..then I may make no life decision that is objectively harmful to me. 2. Administration by a state, institution, etc., of its own affairs without external direction or intervention; autonomy; = self-government n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > autonomy > [noun] autonomy1591 self-governing1619 self-government1647 self-rulea1683 autarchy1691 autocracy of the people1792 self-management1809 self-control1812 self-governance1848 Home Rule1858 autonomism1867 merdeka1947 a1683 J. Owen True Nature Gospel Church (1689) viii. 178 And for want hereof have Churches..degenerated into Anarchy and Confusion, their self Rule being managed with vain Disputes and Janglings. 1826 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. (ed. 2) II. ii. 72 The most anarchal [men] of all are those which surrender self-rule to the caprice of the..most rickety members of society. 1883 Cambr. Rev. 2 May 3/1 Even this amount of self-rule was too dangerous; England undertook to look after Irish affairs. 1900 G. B. Shaw Let. 14 Mar. (1972) II. 156 The definite intention to clear out of India as soon as the natives are capable of self rule is the most pious of superfluities. 1954 D. Eisenhower Let. 22 July in P. Boyle Churchill-Eisenhower Corr. (1990) 163 People are not yet ready for self-rule and..any attempt to make them now responsible for their own governing would be to condemn them to lowered standards. 1978 Times 5 May 6/8 There is apprehension..that Israel will impose its own peace plan which offers a measure of self-rule for the West Bank. 2014 Daily Tel. 7 Nov. 32/1 (advt.) The islands are home to the indigenous Kuna Indians who gained self-rule from the government of Panama in the 1920s. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1532 |
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