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单词 self-seeking
释义 self-ˈseeking, vbl. n.
[self- 1 b; cf. seek v. 7 c.]
The seeking after one's own welfare before that of others, prosecution of selfish ends.
a1586Sidney Arcadia ii. (Sommer) 202 Who by the rules of his own mind could construe no other end of mens doings but self seking.1654Whitlock Zootomia 364 Further than Selfe-destruction, none can drive this Selfe-seeking.a1680Butler Charac., State-Convert, He has so much of a Saint left as to..denounce against Self-seeking, until he is sure to find what he looks for.1705Stanhope Paraphr. I. 55 Partiality and a corrupt principle of Self-seeking.1860Whittier Quaker Alumni 7 All your petty self-seekings.
So self-ˈseeking ppl. a., (a) characterized by self-seeking; (b) (of a radio) fitted with a self-seeker (sense 2).
a1628F. Grevil Let. Hon. Lady i. Wks. (1633) 259 Those selfe-seeking Arts, which teare vp the bowels of the earth for the priuate vse of more than milke, and hony.1668H. More Div. Dial. iv. viii. II. 29 The Reign of mere self-seeking Nature.1712Arbuthnot John Bull ii. xv, He is a Tradesman, a self-seeking Wretch.1823Byron Age of Bronze xiv. 83 To pamper the self-seeking wants, And prop the hill of these agrarian ants.1878R. B. Smith Carthage 233 The..least self seeking Roman of his time.1972Times 14 Sept. 31/8 At 90 mph it is still quiet enough to enjoy the self-seeking radio.1976Drive Jan.–Feb. 82/2 Electric quarter lights, self-seeking radio with automatic electric aerial, two cigarette lighters.




Add: self-ˈseekingness n.
a1902S. Butler Way of All Flesh (1903) l. 231 He saw it and unconsciously recognised the unrest and self-seekingness of the man.1983Rev. Eng. Stud. XXXIV. 498 What comes across in performance, especially in the second half of the play, is not self-seekingness but loyalty to the King.
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