devised
adjective
contrived, planned, invented, or designed.
self-devised
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a word derived from
devised.
Example Sentences
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Most of my recovery grew from my own self-devised therapies.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 25, 2023
But Roiphe’s essay, which Harper’s published on Super Bowl Sunday, falls into many of the same self-devised traps as the #MeToo criticism that’s preceded it.
From Slate ● Feb. 5, 2018
Whether he likes it or not, his show, an anthology of horror stories about technologically oppressive futures, has emerged as an uncanny symbol of humanity’s headlong leap into a self-devised digital hell.
From The Verge ● Oct. 9, 2017
Man is a creature who has free will, and it is by self-devised and self-checked efforts he will attain his full human stature.
From The National Being Some Thoughts on an Irish Polity by George William Russell
We sought comfort and salvation in self-devised trivialities, in penances, confessions and satisfactions, in self-righteous works of monkery and in obedience to the commands of the Pope.
From Epistle Sermons, Vol. III Trinity Sunday to Advent by Martin Luther
