the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Self
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) Hence, personal interest, or love of private interest; selfishness; as, self is his whole aim.
(2):
(n.) Personification; embodiment.
(3):
(a.) Having its own or a single nature or character, as in color, composition, etc., without addition or change; unmixed; as, a self bow, one made from a single piece of wood; self flower or plant, one which is wholly of one color; self-colored.
(4):
(a.) Same; particular; very; identical.
(5):
(n.) The individual as the object of his own reflective consciousness; the man viewed by his own cognition as the subject of all his mental phenomena, the agent in his own activities, the subject of his own feelings, and the possessor of capacities and character; a person as a distinct individual; a being regarded as having personality.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Self'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/s/self.html. 1828.
