self-abandoned

adjective

1. lacking self-control; giving in to one's impulses.

Other Word Forms

• self-abandonment noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of self-abandoned¹

First recorded in 1830–35; self- ( def. ) + abandoned ( def. )

Example Sentences

Self-abandoned, relaxed, and effortless, I seemed to have laid me down in the dried-up bed of a great river; I heard a flood loosened in remote mountains, and felt the torrent come: to rise I had no will, to flee I had no strength.

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This eve's the time, This eve intense with yon first trembling star We seem to pant and reach; scarce aught between The earth that rises and the heaven that bends; All nature self-abandoned, every tree Flung as it will, pursuing its own thoughts And fixed so, every flower and every weed, No pride, no shame, no victory, no defeat; All under God, each measured by itself.

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It is the good pleasure of our Lord, to express and reproduce himself upon the self-abandoned soul.

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How I wished that he was self-abandoned and even weak, so that he should have need of me, of my caress, of my tears!

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So stripped of stability was the pillar, that he was now a mere feather of humanity, self-abandoned to the clasp of the storm of the modern Babylon.

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