tuition
noun
the charge or fee for instruction, as at a private school or a college or university.
self-tuition
-
a word derived from
tuition.
Example Sentences
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This early self-tuition gave him throughout life a lawyer's skill in drafting documents, and a merchant's exactness in keeping accounts.
From The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools by Washington Irving
Pope is supposed to have been scarcely twelve years old when he assumed the office of self-tuition, and bade farewell for ever to schools and tutors.
From Biographical Essays by Thomas De Quincey
The result, therefore, of Pope's self-tuition appears to us, considered in the light of an attempt to acquire certain accomplishments of knowledge, a most complete failure.
From Biographical Essays by Thomas De Quincey
Fresh zeal in self-tuition and in training those subject to her charge, for domestic fidelity, for true citizenship, and for immortal virtue and blessedness.
From The Young Maiden by A. B. (Artemas Bowers) Muzzey
