Meanings
plural selfdoms
- archaicuncountableusuallyselfhood.
"The target of the Jihad was a machine-attitude as much as the machines," Leto said. "Humans had set those machines to usurp our sense of beauty, our necessary selfdom out of which we make living judgments. Naturally, the machines were destroyed."
1981, Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune (Science Fiction), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 263
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Old Englishselfdōm“independence”
- Middle Englishselfdom
- Englishselfdom
From Middle English selfdom, from Old English selfdōm (“independence”), equivalent to self + -dom.
More words from Middle English, Old English
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
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