self-wrought
- a word derived from wrought.
Example Sentences
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He was, however, a man who lived his whole life with disadvantages, some of them self-wrought, and he viewed the world through a dark and wicked lens.
From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2010
Unasked, Mom and Dad made up the difference in the end, thus rescuing me from the depths of self-wrought despair.
From Through these Eyes The courageous struggle to find meaning in a life stressed with cancer by Isaacson, Lauren Ann
Within the nethermost foundations of any mortal's share in any social fellowship must rest his own self-wrought integrity and self-respect.
From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Beardslee, Clark S.
It had been an insufferably cruel day, indeed, for Count Victor in his cell had he not one solace, so purely self-wrought, so utterly fanciful, that it may seem laughable.
From Doom Castle by Munro, Neil
He speaks of the very "prison" where Christ is said to have preached after his death, as a place "where spirits surely unlearn many a bias, many a self-wrought blindness, many a heedless error."
From Flowers of Freethought (First Series) by Foote, G. W. (George William)
