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1599 R. Gostwick tr. A. Polanus Treat. conc. Gods Eternall Predestination 64 By the euent and selfe experience [L. ex ipso eventu & experientia] it is plaine, that the promise of eternall salvation doth not belong to all and euerie one.

1645 Bp. J. Hall Remedy Discontentm. xxvi. 159 Meere ignorance, and want of selfe-experience, is guilty of this errour.

1650 J. Trapp Clavis to Bible (Deut. xi. 2) 100 Those that have such evidence and self-experience, are usually more affected, then those that have things by hear-say only.

1779 W. Marshall Exper. & Observ. conc. Agric. & Weather 164 The Self-Experience I have..had with respect to the Weather.

1846 B. Jowett in Life & Lett. (1897) I. v. 132 Whether all this self-experience and over-sensibility ends in a morbid consciousness.

1886 M. F. Tupper My Life as Author 159 It is a volume of self-experiences, to be read ‘through the lines’.

1944 Philos. Rev. 53 455 The incapacity of the practical self-experience to see through its own self-created dialectic is reflected in the state's humorless inability to see and admit its own subjectivity.

2016 Mail on Sunday (Nexis) 6 Nov. I have only gained self-experience over a number of years. This is from associates, books and training seminars.