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self-ˈhelp
[self- 1 a.]
1. The action or faculty of providing for oneself without assistance from others.
1831Carlyle Sart. Res. ii. iii, In the destitution of the wild desert does our young Ishmael acquire for himself the highest of all possessions, that of Self-help. 1860Smiles (title) Self-help. 1865Kingsley Herew. ix, Free, with the divine instinct of freedom, and all the self-help and energy which spring thereout. 1870Rolleston Anim. Life p. lv, Birds which are possessed, immediately after hatching, of the faculty of self-help.
attrib.1887(title) Self-Help Emigration Society. 1908(title) Self-help exercises in English.
2. Law. Redress of one's wrongs by one's own action, without recourse to legal process.
1875Poste Gaius iii. (ed. 2) 476 The inducement to abstain from self-help..is still required.
Hence self-ˈhelper, self-ˈhelpful a. (whence -ˈhelpfulness), self-ˈhelping ppl. a., self-ˈhelpless (whence -ˈhelplessness).
1891G. B. Shaw Quintessence of Ibsenism ii. 34 No one ever feels helpless by the side of the *self-helper. 1976W. Goldman Magic iii. vii. 165 ‘How come you have all these same kind of books?’.. ‘That's my self-help collection. I'm an addict.’.. ‘Why're you such a self-helper?’
1855Kingsley Westw. Ho! viii, A pig of *self-helpful and serene spirit..fatting fast. 1890Athenæum 11 Oct. 476/3 The self-helpful quality which enables a man..to secure comforts and luxury without deserving..them.
1855Kingsley Westw. Ho! xxvii, His body, pampered with easily-obtained luxuries,..loses its *self-helpfulness.
1840Carlyle Heroes ii. (1858) 239 He is a rough *self-helping son of the wilderness. 1855D. J. Browne Amer. Poultry Yd. 242 The young are active, self-helping little things.
1848Kingsley Yeast ii, I am miserable, self-disgusted, *self-helpless.
1881Daily News 1 Feb. 3/2 Apathy, or at least what I would call *self-helplessness. |