self-abandoned

American  

adjective

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

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Other Word Forms

• self-abandonment
  noun

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Etymology

Origin of self-abandoned

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

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Example Sentences

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self-abandoned

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!

From The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII. by Guy de Maupassant

The village itself was not far off, and sufficiently illustrated the condition of its unfortunate and self-abandoned occupants.

From The Oregon Trail: sketches of prairie and Rocky-Mountain life by Francis Parkman

Tempted and friendless, self-abandoned to the evil impulse of the moment, this woman may have committed herself headlong to the act which she now vainly repents.

From The New Magdalen by Wilkie Collins

Can you see one of your own kind, with heart and head and hands like your own, so self-abandoned, so low, so hopeless, and feel no pity for him?

From Weighed and Wanting by George MacDonald

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.

From Double Trouble Or, Every Hero His Own Villain by Orson Lowell

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