† 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.
| a 1628 Grevil 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. 1691 Norris 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. 1709 Mrs. Manley Secret Mem. (1720) IV. 257 Having no Treachery, no Self-ends in his own Breast. 1728 R. Morris Anc. Archit. 11 They had some sinister View and Self-end. |