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Definition of Selves

1. n. pl. of Self.

Definition of Selves

1. Noun. (plural of self) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Selves

1. self [n] - See also: self

Lexicographical Neighbors of Selves

Literary usage of Selves

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Psychology, General Introduction by Charles Hubbard Judd (1917)
"Dual and multiple personalities analogous to the various selves of normal life. ... Each one of these selves is only partially related to the other systems ..."

2. Psychology, General Introduction by Charles Hubbard Judd (1917)
"Dual and multiple personalities analogous to the various selves of normal life. ... Kach one of these selves is only partially related to the other systems ..."

3. The Persistent Problems of Philosophy: An Introduction to Metaphysics by Mary Whiton Calkins (1912)
"To sum up: Kant teaches that the individual selves in the kingdom of selves are free, in the sense of being selves, not mere complexes of ideas, ..."

4. Collections by Virginia Historical Society (1908)
"... that arived at Nutfield planted them selves in the moneth of ... Robert Boyes Joseph Simonds & James Gregg hath oblidged them selves to build a saw mill ..."

5. The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle, Frank Hesketh Peters (1881)
"For where it lies with us to do, it by repeated wnen tints selves what we are. with us not to do. Where we can say no, we can sav Yes- If then the doing a ..."

6. Bradford's History "of Plimoth Plantation.": From the Original Manuscript by William Bradford, Massachusetts General Court, Massachusetts Office of the Secretary of State (1899)
"... to cleare y* Haven, & withall put our selves upon great extremities, ... And yet we are willing to expose our selves to shuch ..."

7. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes by Robert Burton (1800)
"... but rather voluntarily thrust our selves upon it. " b The lascivious prefers his whore before his life, or good estate ; an angry man his revenge : a ..."

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