sought
verb
simple past tense and past participle of seek.
self-sought
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a word derived from
sought.
Example Sentences
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His ethic of aggressive vigilance seemed to be discredited, his self-sought image as Israel's superdefender was in shambles.
From Time Magazine Archive
She was his companion alike in his daily school tasks and his self-sought pleasures—the confidant and sharer of all his boyish troubles.
From The Youth of Goethe by Brown, Peter Hume
Yes, were you dishonored and lost, to use your own words, my heart would only cling the more closely to you for your self-sought misery.
From Letters of Two Brides by Balzac, Honoré de
The worry of Godwin’s money-matters and the fearful shock of Fanny’s self-sought death, followed as it was by collapse of his own health and nerves, probably withdrew Shelley’s thoughts from the subject for a time.
From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) by Marshall, Florence A. Thomas
I may perhaps be allowed to state," she remarked calmly, "that any office which I hold at present was not self-sought, but was given me as the result of the general vote.
From The Leader of the Lower School A Tale of School Life by Campbell, John
