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self-wrought, ppl. a. [self- 2.] Produced or brought about by oneself.
a1593Marlowe Ovid's Eleg. ii. xiv. 3 If without battell selfe-wrought wounds annoy them. 1742Young Nt. Th. viii. 682 Can man outwit Omnipotence? strike out A self-wrought happiness unmeant by him. 1830Tennyson Tears of Heaven Poems 118 The earth hath made her state forlorn With selfwrought evils of unnumbered years. b. self-wrought-out.
1656Owen Mortif. Sin To Rdr. (1668) A 3 b, [They] have anew imposed the Yoke of a self-wrought-out Mortification on the Necks of their Disciples. 1855Milman Lat. Christ. xiv. x. VI. 632 Teutonic Christianity, more self-depending, more self-guided, more self wrought out. |