Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or power of explaining one's self or itself.
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Examples
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Again, _The Angel in the House_ brought Patmore as near to self-explication as a poet can go.
In a Green Shade A Country Commentary Maurice Hewlett 1892
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It is a rational nature, and it seeks the Supreme Reason, if only for its own self-explication.
Life of Father Hecker Walter Elliott 1885
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What is a man but nature's finer success in self-explication?
Essays — First Series Ralph Waldo Emerson 1842
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What is a man but nature's finer success in self-explication?
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