SELVES
\sˈɛlvz], \sˈɛlvz], \s_ˈɛ_l_v_z]\
Definitions of SELVES
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
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By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By James Champlin Fernald
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One's own person; personal interest; selfishness.
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Very; particular; same; united by present usage to certain personal pronouns and pronominal adjectives to express emphasis or distinction, as myself, himself, &c.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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One's own individual person; personality; identity, as, the fondness we have for self; one's self; selfishness.
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Particular; very, as self-same day; proceded by the pronouns my, thy, him, her, it, them, &c., self forms reciprocal pronouns, as myself; self, used as a common prefix, signifies by, in, of, to, or with, one's self or itself, as self-acting.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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