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 Peter Hume Brown
Who can feel the horrors of the horrible malady, aggravated as it is by the almost ever-abiding consciousness that it is self-sought.
From Stories of Achievement, Volume III (of 6) Orators and Reformers by Asa Don Dickinson
I must on—on—like the insect lured by some fatal light, to a self-sought and certain destruction!”
From The White Gauntlet by Mayne Reid
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 Florence A. Thomas Marshall
