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excellent in a personal (moral or spiritual) way, but qualitatively above oneself". Robert C. Solomon describes awe as passive, but reverence as active...

spirit-sama". When used to refer to oneself, -sama expresses extreme arrogance (or self-effacing irony), as in praising oneself to be of a higher rank, as with...

which reads in Latin: Transire suum pectus mundoque potiri ("Rise above oneself and grasp the world"). Archimedes has appeared on postage stamps issued...

disinformation about recognizing some kind of political leadership above oneself." It also encouraged people to form autonomous combat groups, consisting...

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 38: 187–209. Dickson, Keith. 2009. "Oneself as Others: Aurelius and Autobiography." Arethusa 42.1: 99–125. Gill, Christopher...

actively suicidal may be admitted to psychiatric care either voluntarily or involuntarily. Possessions that may be used to harm oneself are typically removed...

of the cross (Latin: signum crucis), also known as blessing oneself or crossing oneself, is a ritual blessing made by members of some branches of Christianity...

law, self-incrimination is the act of making a statement that exposes oneself to an accusation of criminal liability or prosecution. Self-incrimination...

A self-parody is a parody of oneself or one's own work. As an artist accomplishes it by imitating their own characteristics, a self-parody is potentially...

Look up one, one's, or oneself in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. One is an English language, gender-neutral, indefinite pronoun that means, roughly...

reaction to oneself. While objects of altruistic concern vary, it is an important moral value in many cultures and religions. It may be considered a...

Vegemite or toothpaste spread behind the ears or in the armpits, urinating on oneself, and only speaking English in an Australian accent. The website of the...

outside to Damocles, so too might the lives of others that one covets for oneself. One other interpretation sees the story of the sword of Damocles as explicitly...

serum that promises a "younger, more beautiful, more perfect" version of oneself. Elisabeth, intrigued and desperate, orders The Substance and injects the...

love in your mind immoral? Rand: It is immoral if it is a love placed above oneself. It is more than immoral, it's impossible. Because when you are asked...

acting out of pique, or against pursuing revenge in a way that would damage oneself more than the object of one's anger. It was not uncommon in the Middle...

(/ˈɪli.ɪzəm/; from Latin ille: “he; that man”) is the act of referring to oneself in the third person instead of first person. It is sometimes used in literature...

Suicide by hanging is the intentional killing of oneself (suicide) via suspension from an anchor-point such as an overhead beam or hook, by a rope or...

knowing how to "blend" to neutralize a technique's effect), releasing oneself from an enemy's grasp, and changing or shifting one's position to evade...

bystander. Exposing oneself only to an intimate partner is normally not regarded as exhibitionism. In law, the act of exhibitionism may be referred to as indecent...