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单词 self-power
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self-power
self-power n.
Brit. /ˌsɛlfˈpaʊə/
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U.S. /ˌsɛlfˈpaʊ(ə)r/
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1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius sig. Ff.iiijv Selfe power or libertie to liue after her own will.
a1730 R. Altham Serm. Several Occasions (1732) II. 213 Love is a passion so much depending upon..that principle in man, which we may call self-power, that nothing from without can be prevalent enough to force it in us.
1896 W. James Let. 24 July (1920) II. 41 No more flexibility or self-power in his mind than in a boot-jack.
1964 E. Becker in I. L. Horowitz New Sociol. 123 This is the basic phenomenology of alienations: the failure to develop self-powers by transacting with the world of things.
2016 Belfast Tel. (Nexis) 8 July 19 He's so disillusioned by his own sense of self-power.
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