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self-definitionnoun [mass noun]Definition of one’s individuality and role in life: the struggle for national self-definition...- As the lone Democratic contender who has run for president before, Gephardt instinctively understands the vital role that self-definition plays in the campaign.
- These doctrines and guarantees are central to the American experience and remain essential to our present-day self-definition and national identity.
- I'm struck again by the contrasting optimism and pessimism of our instinctive approaches to questions of national self-definition.
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