Crossword clues for selves
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Self \Self\, n.; pl. Selves.
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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. ``Those who liked their real selves.''
--Addison.A man's self may be the worst fellow to converse with in the world.
--Pope.The self, the I, is recognized in every act of intelligence as the subject to which that act belongs. It is I that perceive, I that imagine, I that remember, I that attend, I that compare, I that feel, I that will, I that am conscious.
--Sir W. Hamilton. Hence, personal interest, or love of private interest; selfishness; as, self is his whole aim.
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Personification; embodiment. [Poetic.]
She was beauty's self.
--Thomson.Note: Self is united to certain personal pronouns and pronominal adjectives to express emphasis or distinction. Thus, for emphasis; I myself will write; I will examine for myself; thou thyself shalt go; thou shalt see for thyself; you yourself shall write; you shall see for yourself; he himself shall write; he shall examine for himself; she herself shall write; she shall examine for herself; the child itself shall be carried; it shall be present itself. It is also used reflexively; as, I abhor myself; thou enrichest thyself; he loves himself; she admires herself; it pleases itself; we walue ourselves; ye hurry yourselves; they see themselves. Himself, herself, themselves, are used in the nominative case, as well as in the objective. ``Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples.''
--John iv. 2.Note: self is used in the formation of innumerable compounds, usually of obvious signification, in most of which it denotes either the agent or the object of the action expressed by the word with which it is joined, or the person in behalf of whom it is performed, or the person or thing to, for, or towards whom or which a quality, attribute, or feeling expressed by the following word belongs, is directed, or is exerted, or from which it proceeds; or it denotes the subject of, or object affected by, such action, quality, attribute, feeling, or the like; as, self-abandoning, self-abnegation, self-abhorring, self-absorbed, self-accusing, self-adjusting, self-balanced, self-boasting, self-canceled, self-combating, self-commendation, self-condemned, self-conflict, self-conquest, self-constituted, self-consumed, self-contempt, self-controlled, self-deceiving, self-denying, self-destroyed, self-disclosure, self-display, self-dominion, self-doomed, self-elected, self-evolved, self-exalting, self-excusing, self-exile, self-fed, self-fulfillment, self-governed, self-harming, self-helpless, self-humiliation, self-idolized, self-inflicted, self-improvement, self-instruction, self-invited, self-judging, self-justification, self-loathing, self-loving, self-maintenance, self-mastered, self-nourishment, self-perfect, self-perpetuation, self-pleasing, self-praising, self-preserving, self-questioned, self-relying, self-restraining, self-revelation, self-ruined, self-satisfaction, self-support, self-sustained, self-sustaining, self-tormenting, self-troubling, self-trust, self-tuition, self-upbraiding, self-valuing, self-worshiping, and many others.
Selves \Selves\, n., pl. of Self.
Wiktionary
n. (self English)
WordNet
adj. combining form; oneself or itself; "self-control"
used as a combining form; relating to--of or by or to or from or for--the self; "self-knowledge"; "self-proclaimed"; "self-induced"
[also: selves (pl)]
See self
Usage examples of "selves".
The public space was already filled with Merging Selves in communion, teachers of mindcrafts, and raucous children.
Rin had, during his feast, hurling earthen plates and goblets until a few Merging Selves grabbed him and held his mind.
They were no longer solitary selves, and in their fear they tore at one another, almost destroying themselves and the world.
Your grown Selves cannot simply take your places here without attracting some attention.
They couldn't expect their grown Selves to have the proper sense of mischief, adults were notorious for changing their ways the moment they joined the Adult Conspiracy.
You will meet your other Selves, take their hands, turn with them, then let go and continue toward Ptero, which will seem larger.
In effect you will be traveling to Ptero, passing your Selves along the way.
When your older Selves are finished here, you will feel a signal, and know it is time to exchange back.
Your other selves needed to be twenty-one for this special mission, so we brought the castle here for the duration.
You exchanged with your older Selves, and now they are in Xanth at age twenty-one, and Sim is twenty-two.
Your friends on Xanth are surely helping your other Selves to manage there, and we are helping you to manage here.
But I've seem them do it before, when their other selves wanted to travel beyond their life spans.
I'm blank on current events, because on Ptero our year is blank six months either side of the time our Selves live in Xanth.
Princess Ida, at Castle Roogna--they would have to return to her to exchange back with their younger Selves in good order, so no one would expect her to go there voluntarily.
It is an unjust scandal of our adversaries, and a gross errour in our selves, to compute the Nativity of our Religion from Henry the Eighth, who, though he rejected the Pope, refus'd not the faith of Rome, and effected no more than what his own Predecessors desired and assayed in Ages past, and was conceived the State of Venice would have attempted in our days.