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▪ I. selve, v. rare.|sɛlv| [f. self n.] intr. (only G. M. Hopkins) and trans. (To cause) to become and act as a unique self. Hence selved ppl. a., ˈselving vbl. n. Also Comb., as selved-up.
1880G. M. Hopkins Sermons & Devotional Writings (1959) 122 Human nature, being more highly pitched, selved, and distinctive than anything in the world. Ibid. 123 Nothing else in nature comes near this unspeakable stress of pitch, distinctiveness, and selving, this selfbeing of my own. Ibid. 125 Nothing can..exercise function and determination before it has a nature to ‘function’ and determine, to selve and instress, with. Ibid., I may treat the question from the side of my being, which is said to be compounded, selved-up, or identified with this universal mind. 1953K. Raine Coll. Poems (1956) 166 Ceasing to trouble the flowing of things with the fleeting Dream and hope and despair of this transient perilous selving. 1976H. A. Williams Tensions v. 87 Around that dim and dull awareness of our identity with God we begin, gradually and instinctively, to centre and selve the rest of what we are. That centring and selving takes the whole of our life. ▪ II. selve obs. form of salve n.1
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