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self-shadowed

  • a word derived from shadowed.
    shadowed
    adjective
    noting or pertaining to an ornamented type in which the embellishment is outside the character, especially one in which a black line at one side and at the top or bottom gives the effect of a cast shadow.

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His nature so far clarifies itself, that here and there a truth of the great world will penetrate, sorely dimmed, through the fog-laden, self-shadowed atmosphere of his microcosm.

From A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare by George MacDonald