1675 R. Baxter Catholick Theol. ix. 31 The Liberty of the will consisteth..in an Indetermination with a Power of self-determining.

1746 J. Dickinson Vindic. God's Sovereign Free Grace 9 There is not in every one a Power of Self-determining, of chusing or refusing, by which a Man can comply with, or reject, the Suggestions of the Holy Spirit.

1853 W. Pulsford tr. J. Müller Christian Doctr. Sin II. 33 The self-determining of the free will.

1872 Jrnl. Speculative Philos. 6 33 The New Testament contains the self-determining of the Absolute, in which itself is distinguished from itself and posited as an identical Other, which is manifested to men as Man.

1901 Month Sept. 259 If moral deeds are but the self-determinings of character in face of circumstances,..then no man is at liberty to change his course in life.

1983 Buddhist–Christian Stud. 3 133 Awakening is a form of the self-determining of man who answers to the Subject.

2013 L. Shannon Accommodated Animal iv. 195 Gelli's animals repeatedly stress this insight, which poses core problems for Cartesian self-determinings of truth.

1655 R. Baxter Arrogancy of Reason 65 It was the excellency of the Creature, as being to be governed, to have freewil, or a self-determining power to good or evil.

1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ iii. iii. 485 To give man the freedom of his actions, and a self determining power.

1741 Mem. Martinus Scriblerus xii. 44 in A. Pope Wks. II Every animal is conscious of some individual self-moving, self-determining principle.

1754 J. Edwards Careful Enq. Freedom of Will ii. ix. 83 A Self-determining Power in the Understanding..independent, undetermined by any Thing prior to it's own Acts and Determinations.

1853 G. Grote Hist. Greece XI. ii. xc. 700 A free self-determining political aggregate.

1860 Southern Lit. Messenger Aug. 114/2 A self-determining agent, possessing a power of doing what he wills within the sphere of natural endowments, without any influence from any other source, or from without.

1923 Jrnl. Relig. 3 342 From democracy arose self-determining religious groups like the Congregationalists, Baptists, and Unitarians, which were never state religions like Lutheranism, Anglicanism, and Presbyterianism.

1980 J. A. Hostetler Amish Society (ed. 3) i. i. 17 The Amish derived from the Reformation, which in itself was a liberating and self-determining movement.

1999 Guardian 24 Sept. (Friday Review section) 19 Bryn..has become one of the best-known representatives of the new-look, self-determining Wales.