self
/ˈsɛlf/ noun A1- One individual's personality, character, demeanor, or disposition. · She remained her usual cheerful self despite recent setbacks
- The subject of one's own experience of phenomena: perception, emotions, thoughts.
- An individual person as the object of the person's own reflective consciousness (plural selves).
- Self-interest or personal advantage.
- A seedling produced by self-pollination (plural selfs).
- A flower having its colour uniform as opposed to variegated.
- Any molecule, cell, or tissue of an organism's own (belonging to the self), as opposed to a foreign (nonself) molecule, cell, or tissue (for example, infective, allogenic, or xenogenic).
Plural selves
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“Yes, he is young, and youth is invariably self-confident.
Anne gave one gasping little scream which nobody ever heard; she was white to the lips, but she did not lose her self-possession.
THE MEMBERS of the Body rebelled against the Belly, and said, “Why should we be perpetually engaged in administering to your wants, while you do nothing but take your rest, and enjoy yourself in luxury and self-indulgence?” The Members carried out their resolve and refused their assistance to the Belly.
They have a sharp, shrewish look, which I do not like at all; and in her air altogether, there is a self-sufficiency without fashion, which is intolerable.”
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