ppl. a., -delicious a., † -interessed ppl. a., -knowing ppl. a., -like a., -ness, -reflecting, -valuing ppl. adjs., -willedness. (UN-1 7, 7 b, 8, 10, 12; cf. SELF 1 e, 1 f.)
1591. Sylvester, Du Bartas, I. ii. 212. The World’s owne Matter is the waxen Lump, which, *un-self-changing, takes all kind of stamp. Ibid., iii. 1057. Such were not yerst Cincinnatus Fabricius, Serranus, Curius, who *vn-self-delicious,… With ploughs triumphant plough’d the Roman lands.
1664. H. More, Exp. 7 Epist., viii. 134. Thou art a lover of unity, *un-self-interessed, a foe to no body. Ibid. (1685), Paralip. Prophet., l. 465. That full, free, and absolute unself-interessed Good.
1649. Milton, Eikon., ix. 78. He twitts them with his Acts of grace; proud, and *unself-knowing words in the mouth of any King.
1598. Sylvester, Du Bartas, II. ii. IV. Columnes, 195. All Solids else (cast in the Aire) reflect *Un-self-like-forms: but in a Globe each tract seems still the same.
1886. G. Macdonald, What’s Mine’s Mine, xx. He would have attracted attention anywhere, if only from his look of quiet *unselfness.
1668. H. More, Div. Dial., II. 69. Like an *un-self-reflecting and an *un-self-valuing childe. Ibid. (1684), Answer, 242. The Wheels and living Creatures being … acted by the spirit, does not signifie an Earthly state in them, but … an *Unselfwilledness.
