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/ˈsɛlf/ · pronoun
(obsolete or rare) Himself, herself, itself, themself, themselves; that specific (person mentioned)..
This argument was put forward by the defendant self.
Now that I put on my glasses I could see that the hut was empty but for our two selves; that it must have been absolutely empty till we entered.
I made out a cheque, payable to self, which cheered me up somewhat.
She remained her usual cheerful self despite recent setbacks
John Locke argued that the mind is not like a furnished flat, prestocked before occupation with innate ideas, but like a home put together piecemeal from mental acquisitions picked up bit by bit. The self is thus the bit-by-bit product of experience and education: we are what we become - or, in Wordworth's later phrase, the child is the father of the man. Particular parents, surroundings and stimuli produce individuated selves. Identity is thus unique because contingent, the cumulative product of ceaseless occurrences.
Portia: To these injunctions every one doth swear That comes to hazard for my worthless self.
Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
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.
Use self when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Self means (obsolete or rare) Himself, herself, itself, themself, themselves; that specific (person mentioned)..
Common synonyms include cyberself, herself, himself, itself.
Possible antonyms include nonself, outcross.
This argument was put forward by the defendant self.
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