understood
verb
simple past tense and past participle of understand.
self-understood
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a word derived from
understood.
Example Sentences
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Christianity united self-understood “Western Civilization” just as Roman culture had a few centuries earlier.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
Victoria’s astonishingly long reign, from 1837 to 1901, coincided with the triumph of bourgeois norms of behavior among self-understood elites.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
That joyful irreverence translated directly into postmodern art, which often both satirized and embraced the breakdown between mainstream culture and self-understood “avant-gardes.”
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
With regards to Israel, this is almost self-understood.
From US News ● Dec. 10, 2014
They seemed never before to have weighed much against the abundance of her husband’s kindness and a uniform devotion which had come to be tacit and self-understood.
From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin
