Over the next two decades he would travel the length and breadth of North Americawith the self-ordained mission to seek out, identify and draw every species of birdindigenous to the New World.
Examples of 'self-ordained' in a sentence
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What follows has all the hallmarks of a tragedy, much of it self-ordained.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
He is a presenter whose entire oeuvre comes with the invisible inverted commas of self-ordained irony.