| 单词 |
self-end |
| 释义 |
† self-end Obs. Chiefly pl. (Very common 1650–1700.) [f. self- 5 a, d + end n. 14.] Personal or private end or object; selfish aim or purpose.
a1628Grevil Life of Sidney ii. (1652) 33 These were not complements, self-ends, or use of each other. 1633― Let. to Hon. Lady iii. Wks. 1870 IV. 254 My self-end being nothing but your fauor, and my true end your good. 1691Norris Pract. Disc. 118 He that loves God, loves him for his own good..; but he that Praises him..does it not upon any self-end, but meerly because he thinks it just. 1709Mrs. Manley Secret Mem. (1720) IV. 257 Having no Treachery, no Self-ends in his own Breast. 1728R. Morris Anc. Archit. 11 They had some sinister View and Self-end. |

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