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self
Part of speech: NounOne's own person or character; personality; one's own private interest; as, a person who lives for self is unhappy.
Part of speech: AdjectiveSame or very: used in composition, as in selfsame.
Usage examples "self":- Then she settled into her usual self once more. - "Three Thousand Dollars", Anna Katharine Green.
- What exactly did you say to them when you announced that they were to have self- government? - "A Dominie in Doubt", A. S. Neill.
- And afterwards- well, one doesn't trouble one's self about the women that have gone under. - "Lady Rose's Daughter", Mrs. Humphry Ward.