Chapter Selectman to Self-degradation of S by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

herself, themselves, are used in the nominative case, as well as in the objective. "Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples." John iv. 2.

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.

Self-abased
(Self`-a*based") a. Humbled by consciousness of inferiority, unworthiness, guilt, or shame.

Self-abasement
(Self`-a*base"ment) n.

1. Degradation of one's self by one's own act.

2. Humiliation or abasement proceeding from consciousness of inferiority, guilt, or shame.

Self-abasing
(Self`-a*bas"ing), a. Lowering or humbling one's self.

Self-abhorrence
(Self`-ab*hor"rence) n. Abhorrence of one's self.

Self-abnegation
(Self`-ab`ne*ga"tion) n. Self- denial; self-renunciation; self-sacrifice.

Self-abuse
(Self`-abuse") n.

1. The abuse of one's own self, powers, or faculties.

2. Self-deception; delusion. [Obs.] Shak.

3. Masturbation; onanism; self- pollution.

Self-accused
(Self"-ac*cused") a. Accused by one's self or by one's conscience. "Die self-accused." Cowper.

Self-acting
(Self`-act"ing) a. Acting of or by one's self or by itself; — said especially of a machine or mechanism which is made to perform of or for itself what is usually done by human agency; automatic; as, a self-acting feed apparatus; a self-acting mule; a self-acting press.

Self-action
(Self`-ac"tion) n. Action by, or originating in, one's self or itself.

Self-active
(Self`-ac"tive) a. Acting of one's self or of itself; acting without depending on other agents.

Self-activity
(Self`-ac*tiv"i*ty) n. The quality or state of being self-active; self-action.