Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The definition of one's identity, character, abilities, and attitudes by oneself.
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Examples
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And these days, as young people in colleges and universities across the country are bullied for their sexualities and others in torment use very desperate measures to escape their various entrapments, empowering self-definition and support could not be more crucial.
Gina Athena Ulysse: Teaching Black Feminism and Paying it Forward Gina Athena Ulysse 2010
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I respect the right of each community to self-definition.
Rev. Wil Gafney, Ph.D.: Messianic Judaism Beyond The Eddie Long Debacle Ph.D. Rev. Wil Gafney 2012
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They are totally optional cars, expressive of the driver, pure self-definition.
When Vroom Conquers Cuteness Dan Neil 2011
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And these days, as young people in colleges and universities across the country are bullied for their sexualities and others in torment use very desperate measures to escape their various entrapments, empowering self-definition and support could not be more crucial.
Gina Athena Ulysse: Teaching Black Feminism and Paying it Forward Gina Athena Ulysse 2010
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A self-definition supported by a broader base than just good looks leads to less reactivity when they change.
Vivian Diller, Ph.D.: See Yourself As Beautiful: Replace Magic Potions With Cognitive Solutions Ph.D. Vivian Diller 2010
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"The greatest importance of the word 'Orient' in 19th-century thinking," observes ASO music director Leon Botstein, "was as a source of inspiration and self-definition among Western artists and writers."
Go East, Monsieur Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2012
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This need for an external source of self-definition became part of the core of Protestantism.
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This need for an external source of self-definition became part of the core of Protestantism.
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The former is underpinned by an entrenched social reality, whereas the latter is more a question of self-definition, with the corresponding effect that offline impact of the former is likely to be far greater than that of the latter.
Global Voices in English » Caste Based Communities on Orkut Mirror India’s Splintered Society 2009
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And these days, as young people in colleges and universities across the country are bullied for their sexualities and others in torment use very desperate measures to escape their various entrapments, empowering self-definition and support could not be more crucial.
Gina Athena Ulysse: Teaching Black Feminism and Paying it Forward Gina Athena Ulysse 2010
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