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Definition of "selfe" [selfe]

  • Obsolete spelling of self. (adjective)

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Use "selfe" in a sentence
  • "Many other like examples I could alledge at this present, if I knew not vnto whom I now wrote, or in what: for your honour being skilfull in histories, and so familiarly acquainted with the matter it selfe, that is in still entertaining learned men with all curtesie, I should seeme to light"
  • "Cape Cod is the next presents it selfe, which is onely a headland of high hils, ouer-growne with shrubby Pines, hurts and such trash, but an excellent harbour for all weathers."
  • "Wherefore I my selfe will be a meane, that your vertue and good name (because you congratulate with vs for the gospel of Christ here published, and doe thinke and write so louingly and honourably of our nation) may sease hereafter to be vnknown amongst vs. [Sidenote: This is the brief Commentarie of Ionas Arngrimus immediatly going before.]"