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I-hood en · NOUN

Etymology

From I + -hood, chiefly a calque of German Ichheit (“selfhood”). Compare also Dutch ikheid (“individuality”).

Meanings

1. (uncountable) The state of one's own self or identity; one's conscious personality.
   • The Man Christ is..the First who in the Anointing dyed to the Humane I-hood. 1662, J. Sparrow tr. J. Boehme, Apol. Perfection in Remainder Bks.:
   • He has no autarkia, or self-sufficingness—no ichheit, or I-hood, as the Germans would say. 1871, H. Macmillan, True Vine (1872) iii.:
   • Our Humane Will dyed away in the Death of Christ from its own I-hood, and own Willing. 1653, J. Sparrow tr. J. Boehme, Considerations upon Esaiah Stiefel:
   • He inclineth himself to my Minehood, and my Ihood inclineth it self up into him. 1662, J. Sparrow tr. J. Boehme, 2nd Apol. B. Tylcken in Remainder Bks.:
   • The voice, as pure, lyric, unselfconscious I-hood spilling or erupting into the world, suddenly becomes part of that world and recoils upon its originator. 2000, S. Connor, Dumbstruck:
   • Hence, in that respect Henrich's theory of more modest I-hood is definitely an improvement. I heartily support Henrich's attempts to bring the I 'down to earth' and to base a theory of I-hood on daily life's experiences. 2010, Cia Van Woezik, God - Beyond Me:

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Synonyms

I-ship · I-ness