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self-life

self-life noun: life dedicated to oneself, pleasure or self-fulfilment, often as opposed to a life devoted to God.

Noun

self-life

  1. Life dedicated to oneself, pleasure or self-fulfilment, often as opposed to a life devoted to God.
    • The story of the Bible is therefore the story of the fall of man by listening to the self-life, in time being brought back to oneness with the Divine through the work of a Human-Divine Redeemer, the seed of the woman.1947, Walter Brown Murray, What Is The True Christian Religion?, Chapter 2
    • That recurring idea of isolation, the sense of the secrecy of men's bosoms, the perception of life as always lying in the shadow that falls on it, proceeded from predilections of his own, differentiating him from other men; there may have been no very perilous stuff in his breast, nothing to...1902, George Edward Woodberry, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Chapter 4

Origin of self-life

From self- + life.

Questions about self-life

What does self-life mean?
Self-life means life dedicated to oneself, pleasure or self-fulfilment, often as opposed to a life devoted to God.
What part of speech is self-life?
Self-life is a noun.

Words near self-life in the dictionary

  1. self-licking ice-cream cones
  2. self-licking lollipop
  3. self-licking lollipops
  4. self-lie
  5. self-lies
  6. self-life
  7. self-limitation
  8. self-limited
  9. self-limiting
  10. self-liquidator
  11. self-liquidators

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