self-lost, a.
[self- 2.]
Lost through one's own action, fault, etc. In first quot., lost in one's own estimation.
| 1645 Rutherford Tryal & Tri. Faith 108 It is one thing to be lost, and a sinner, and another thing to be self-lost. 1667 Milton P.L. vii. 154, I can repaire That detriment, if such it be to lose Self-lost. 1792 R. Cumberland Calvary v. 214 Rush'd into sin prepense, self-will'd, self-lost. 1796 F. Burney Camilla II. 149 The infatuated blindness of that self-lost young man. 1856 E. Fitzgerald Salámán i. 23 Thyself Self-Lost, and Conscience-quit of Good and Evil. |