She remained her usual cheerfulself despite recent setbacks
2003,Roy Porter,Flesh in the Age of Reason, Ch.1, at p.7:
John Locke argued that the mind is not like a furnished flat, prestocked before occupation with innate ideas, but like a home put together piecemeal from mental acquisitions picked up bit by bit. Theself is thus the bit-by-bit product of experience and education: we are what we become - or, inWordworth's later phrase, the child is the father of the man. Particular parents, surroundings and stimuli produce individuated selves. Identity is thus unique because contingent, the cumulative product of ceaseless occurrences.
Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserableself. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
Theself, the I, is recognized in every act of intelligence as the subject to which that act belongs. It is I that perceive, I that imagine, I that remember, I that attend, I that compare, I that feel, I that will, I that am conscious.
The preposterous altruism too![…]Resist not evil. It is an insane immolation ofself—as bad intrinsically as fakirs stabbing themselves or anchorites warping their spines in caves scarcely large enough for a fair-sized dog.
Self-interest or personal advantage.
(botany) A seedling produced by self-pollination (pluralselfs).
2000, G Ristoriet al., “Compositional bias and mimicry toward the nonself proteome in immunodominant T cell epitopes of self and nonself antigens”, inFASEB Journal: the official journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, volume14, number 3,→PMID, pages431–438:
Similarity profiles between helper T cell epitopes (ofself or microbial antigens and allergens) and human or microbial SWISSPROT collections were produced. For each antigen, both collections yielded largely overlapping profiles, demonstrating thatself-nonself discrimination does not rely on qualitative features that distinguish human from microbial peptides. [...] Epitopes (onself and nonself antigens) can cross-stimulate T cells at increasing potency as their similarity with nonself augments.
In plants, the ability to recognizeself from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.
I owe you much, and, like a wilful youth / That which I owe is lost; but if you please / To shoot another arrow thatself way / Which you did shoot the first, I do not doubt, / As I will watch the aim, or to find both, / Or bring your latter hazard back again, / And thankfully rest debtor for the first.
2000, G Ristoriet al., “Compositional bias and mimicry toward the nonself proteome in immunodominant T cell epitopes of self and nonself antigens”, inFASEB Journal: the official journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, volume14, number 3,→PMID, pages431–438:
Similarity profiles between helper T cell epitopes (ofself or microbial antigens and allergens) and human or microbial SWISSPROT collections were produced. For each antigen, both collections yielded largely overlapping profiles, demonstrating thatself-nonself discrimination does not rely on qualitative features that distinguish human from microbial peptides. However, epitopes whose probability of mimicry withself or nonself prevails are, respectively, tolerated or immunodominant and coexist within the same (auto-)antigen regardless of itsself/nonself nature. Epitopes (onself and nonself antigens) can cross-stimulate T cells at increasing potency as their similarity with nonself augments.
^Hall, Joseph Sargent (2 March 1942), “3. The Consonants”, inThe Phonetics of Great Smoky Mountain Speech (American Speech: Reprints and Monographs; 4),New York:King's Crown Press,→DOI,→ISBN,§ 2, page88.
Self in theEncyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)