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self-wrong en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *swé? Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *selbaz Old English self Old English self- Middle English self- English self- English wrong English self-wrong From self- + wrong. First attested in 1580–1590.

Meanings

  1. A wrong done to oneself.
    • But leaſt my ſelfe be guilty to ſelfe wrong, ¶ Ile ſtop mine eares againſt the Mermaids ſong. c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], page 92, column 2:

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