committal
noun
an act or instance of committing; commitment.
self-committal
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a word derived from
committal.
Example Sentences
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The Captain, who may or may not have noted my anxiety, paid no heed either to my unfortunate self-committal or to the apologetic question with which I endeavoured to retrieve myself.
From One of My Sons by Anna Katharine Green
Diagram II. is Solveig, a woman who has no dread of self-committal, who surrenders Self and is, in short, Peer's perfect antithesis.
From Adventures in Criticism by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
With little or no belief in the possibility of either, they stood shivering on the banks of the Rubicon, that mythical river of irretrievable self-committal, hesitating to enter its turbid waters.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 by Various
O'Malley felt as though his decision was somehow an act of self-committal, almost grave.
From The Centaur by Algernon Blackwood
Sue and Jude listened, and severally saw themselves in time past going through the same form of self-committal.
From Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
