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Definition of Find oneself
1. Verb. Accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation. "My son went to Berkeley to find himself"
Definition of Find oneself
1. Verb. (idiomatic) To learn, or attempt to learn, what kind of person one is and what one wants in life. ¹
2. Verb. (idiomatic) To unexpectedly or unintentionally begin to do or experience something. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Find Oneself
Literary usage of Find oneself
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. How to Get what You Want by Orison Swett Marden (1917)
"CHAPTER VII HOW TO find oneself Few men find themselves before they die.
Ralph Waldo Emerson. It's that bigger, grander man beating beneath the dwarf of a ..."
2. The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels and Explorations of the by Reuben Gold Thwaites, Jesuits (1899)
"... it is not one of the least heavy of the Crosses to find oneself alone in a
Church which is dispersed, and was born but yesterday; to find oneself ..."
3. The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women (1905)
"If, on the other hand, they were brushed briskly upwards, one would find oneself
in ш i awkward — and early school, one could crib " If the whiskers drooped ..."
4. Structure & Growth of the Mind by Sir William Mitchell (1907)
"One may be sorry to find oneself glad at another's ill-luck, and glad to find
oneself sorry or remorseful. But, though we may group sensory with emotional ..."
5. A Short history of Aryan medical science by Bhagavat Siṃhajī (1896)
"... to embrace a corpse or a mendicant, to see one's dead relatives, or find
oneself besmeared with oil, to eat cooked food, or drink milk or oil, ..."
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