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- noun Selfhood.
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- noun archaic
selfhood .
Etymologies
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Examples
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That which is created from a combination of elements must eventually revert back into those element once more, nothing is permanent, fixed or solid and this includes our I, ego or sense of individual selfdom.
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TUTU: It was, in fact, education for perpetual selfdom, and I said, 'No, I'm sorry, I don't want to collaborate in that system.'
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The noble monuments of feudal times create no desire to return to the days of selfdom.
Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian Various 1562
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Caller Errin!) exteriorises on this ourherenow plane in disunited solod, likeward and gushious bodies with (science, say!) peril-whitened passionpanting pugnoplangent intuitions of reunited selfdom (murky whey, abstrew adim!) in the higherdimissional selfless Allself, theemeeng Narsty meetheeng Idoless, and telling
Finnegans Wake 2006
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