Unself v.

(UN-² 6 b, 8.) Also Unselfed ppl. a., Unselfing vbl. sb.

1654.  R. Whitlock, Ζωοτομια, 265. Canst thou afford lying, Dissembling,… and servile unselfing thy free born Minde, or Body?

1668.  H. More, Div. Dial., II. 28. God himself, who is that pure, free, and perfectly-unselfed Love.

1765.  J. Brown, Chr. Jrnl., 286. O to be unearthed, unselfed, that I may be like him!

1806.  Surr, Winter in Lond., III. 121. I cannot unself or unsex myself sufficiently to write in the narrative form; it must be I—I—I, and all about me—me—me.

1856.  Faber, Creator & Creature (1886), 55. Holiness is an unselfing of ourselves.

1868.  Browning, Ring & Bk., VII. 707. The grotesque intrigue To make me and my friend unself ourselves.

1890.  J. Pulsford, Loyalty to Christ, I. 39. His unutterable sympathy … and His utterly unselfed character.