self-abandoned
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of self-abandoned
First recorded in 1830–35; self- ( def. ) + abandoned ( def. )
Example Sentences
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No man is so self-abandoned to despair and degradation, that at some casual moment thoughts of amendment—some gleams of hope, however faint and transient, from the distant future—will not visit him.
From The Evil Guest by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan
So stripped of stability was the pillar, that he was now a mere feather of humanity, self-abandoned to the clasp of the storm of the modern Babylon.
From Double Trouble Or, Every Hero His Own Villain by Lowell, Orson
Can you see one of your own kind, with heart and head and hands like your own, so self-abandoned, so low, so hopeless, and feel no pity for him?
From Weighed and Wanting by MacDonald, George
How I wished that he was self-abandoned and even weak, so that he should have need of me, of my caress, of my tears!
From The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII. by Maupassant, Guy de
The village itself was not far off, and sufficiently illustrated the condition of its unfortunate and self-abandoned occupants.
From The Oregon Trail: sketches of prairie and Rocky-Mountain life by Parkman, Francis
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