Selves

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Selves \Selves\, n.,
     pl. of {Self}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Self \Self\, n.; pl. {Selves}.
     1. The individual as the object of his own reflective
        consciousness; the man viewed by his own cognition as the
        subject of all his mental phenomena, the agent in his own
        activities, the subject of his own feelings, and the
        possessor of capacities and character; a person as a
        distinct individual; a being regarded as having
        personality. "Those who liked their real selves."
        --Addison.
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              A man's self may be the worst fellow to converse
              with in the world.                    --Pope.
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              The self, the I, is recognized in every act of
              intelligence as the subject to which that act
              belongs. It is I that perceive, I that imagine, I
              that remember, I that attend, I that compare, I that
              feel, I that will, I that am conscious. --Sir W.
                                                    Hamilton.
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     2. Hence, personal interest, or love of private interest;
        selfishness; as, self is his whole aim.
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     3. Personification; embodiment. [Poetic.]
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              She was beauty's self.                --Thomson.
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     Note: Self is united to certain personal pronouns and
           pronominal adjectives to express emphasis or
           distinction. Thus, for emphasis; I myself will write; I
           will examine for myself; thou thyself shalt go; thou
           shalt see for thyself; you yourself shall write; you
           shall see for yourself; he himself shall write; he
           shall examine for himself; she herself shall write; she
           shall examine for herself; the child itself shall be
           carried; it shall be present itself. It is also used
           reflexively; as, I abhor myself; thou enrichest
           thyself; he loves himself; she admires herself; it
           pleases itself; we walue ourselves; ye hurry
           yourselves; they see themselves. Himself, herself,
           themselves, are used in the nominative case, as well as
           in the objective. "Jesus himself baptized not, but his
           disciples." --John iv. 2.
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     Note: 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.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  self
       adj 1: combining form; oneself or itself; "self-control"
       2: used as a combining form; relating to--of or by or to or
          from or for--the self; "self-knowledge";
          "self-proclaimed"; "self-induced"
       n 1: your consciousness of your own identity [syn: {ego}]
       2: a person considered as a unique individual; "one's own self"
       [also: {selves} (pl)]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  selves
       See {self}