self-mindedadj.

1531 W. Tyndale Answere Mores Dialoge f. xcix^v Opinatiue, selfeminded and obstinat.

1584 T. Lodge Alarum against Vsurers f. 17 Some are selfe minded, and greedie of their owne gaine.

1655 N. Hendrik Figure True & Spiritual Tabernacle To Rdr. sig. B Whosoever then doth not apply himself to the Love:..and is grown self-wise or self-minded against the same, by means of his aspiring or loftie knowledge.

1690 tr. G. Buchanan Hist. Scotl. vi. 195 They, instead of prescribing him a true Remedy..enjoyned him those absurd and fallacious ones, which Evil and Self-minded Men had devised for their own Gain.

1730 ‘T. Coleny’ Eng. & Other Reformed Countries Reconciled to Rome xxviii. 378 Comparing the one party with the other, the few self minded Large Reformers, with the ancient unanimous consent.

1866 United Presb. Mag. Aug. 346 Proud, conceited, ambitious, and self-minded, the Pharisees were not inclined to listen to any doctrine that exposed their hypocrisy.

1896 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 26 July 15/1 ‘Critters ought to be a little bit self-minded on a range,’ the teamster said.

1903 G. Moore Untilled Field 217 The priest went wild when he heard Julia speak like this; he had only just come to the parish, and did not know how self-minded Julia was.

1944 N.Y. Times 16 Apr. s8/4 It is possible that democracy will work here..to produce some solutions which might be overlooked by..more self-minded viewpoints.

2016 Crain's Chicago Business (Nexis) 29 Aug. 2 The bullheaded, self-minded rich guy who wants to elect a Legislature that will be nicer to his agenda.

1574 C. Vitell tr. H. Niclaes Prophetie Spirit of Loue x. f. 23 All Such, as..liue according to their owne Selfmindednes, and according to the Sensualitie, Will and Pleasure of their Fleash.

1579 W. Wilkinson Confut. Familye of Loue f. 37^v The imagination which proceedeth out of the selfemindednes of the outward man.

1852 W. Pulsford tr. J. Müller Christian Doctr. Sin I. i. iii. 178 This same ground-tendency of the perverted will, shows itself in a more negative form in self-mindedness.

2014 K. L. Higgins Econ. Growth & Sustainability (2015) v. 45 Beyond..‘keeping up with the Joneses’,..other more durable forms of happiness and well-being can offset the short-term self-mindedness of our mental model.