self-identify

[ self-ahy-den-ti-fahy, ‐i-den-ti-fahy ]

/ ˈsɛlf aɪˈdɛn tɪˌfaɪ, ‐ɪˈdɛn tɪˌfaɪ /

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verb (used without object)

identify (defs. 7, 8): to self-identify as gay; to self-identify with others in the same situation.

verb (used with object)

identify (defs. 4, 6): I've never self-identified myself with that radical mentality. She sometimes self-identifies herself with her patients.

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Origin of self-identify

First recorded in 1960–65; self + identify

self-i·den·ti·fi·ca·tion, noun

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For someone with anorexia, self-starvation makes them feel better.
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Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.
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Now this setting up of an orderly law-abiding self seems to me to imply that there are impulses which make for order.
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At present, Louis was too self-absorbed by the struggles within him, to look deep into what was passing around him.
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But to wave this discourse of Heathens, how many self-contradicting principles are there held among Christians?
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Jean grinned and dribbled self-consciously, and showed his two little teeth to the proudest father in the world.
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