selfness (selfnes)

[ Who indeed infelt affection bears, So captives to his saint both soul and sense; That, wholly hers, all selfne he forbears. Sir P. Sidney (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 533). 2. Personality. The analogical attribution to things of selfne , efficiency, and design. J. Ward, Encyc. Brit., XX. 81. In that religious relation the relation ceases; the self loses sight of its private selfne , and gives itself up, to find itself and more than itself. F. H. Bradley , Ethical Studies, p. 19. self-offense (self-o-fens'), n. One's own offense. Grace to stand, and virtue go; More nor le to others paying Than by self - offences weighing. Shak., M. for M., iii. 2. 280.