单词 | self-imposed |
释义 | self-imposedadj. Of an obligation, task, circumstance, etc.: imposed on oneself of one's own volition, or on one's own initiative. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > free will > [adjective] > brought about by free will unset1547 voluntary1548 self-set1593 self-imposed1657 unprovidential1693 self-induced1796 undestined1827 1657 H. P. Cressy Baker's Sancta Sophia I. 109 Vnlesse they will renounce their owne preconceiued iudgment & preassumed selfe-imposed obligations. 1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 230 Of needless shame and self-imposed disgrace. 1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist III. xli. 92 Upon the very same night when Nancy..hurried on her self-imposed mission to Rose Maylie. 1877 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (ed. 3) II. App. 651 There is no reason to think that the pilgrimage was other than a self-imposed one. 1957 A. Thwaite Ess. Contemp. Eng. Poetry ix. 142 His self-imposed isolation from English literary life has left him free to work out his own poetic salvation. 2013 M. Zailckas Mother, Mother (2014) 105 The bathroom was a beautiful space for self-imposed exile. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1657 |
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