self-acting
adjective
acting by itself; automatic.
self-action
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a word derived from
self-acting.
Example Sentences
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To believe in Nature, in its self-existence, its self-subsistence, its self-action, its eternity, infinity, and materiality, and in that only, is Affirmative Atheism.*
From The Limits Of Atheism Or, Why should Sceptics be Outlaws? by George Jacob Holyoake
Life and self-action in dead wood and iron are phenomena too striking and pregnant with meaning to be wisely slurred or ignored.
From Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism by Allen Putnam
The machine did the labour, and by its self-action did the work in the most perfect manner.
From James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography by Samuel Smiles
Look you! a savage thinks that there is a diabolism in the self-action of a watch—in the reflection of a looking-glass.
From The Haunted Homestead A Novel by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
When he had married her, not yet nine months since, she had been a little girl, altogether in his hands, not pretending to any self-action, and anxious to be guided in everything by him.
From Is He Popenjoy? by Anthony Trollope
