selving
nounEtymology
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The formation or modification of one's identity.
- The selving process is one that cannot be reduced to origins or to a repetition of antecedent/repressed conditions.
- Moral selving among the drafted volunteers at The Salvation Army exposed an organization that believed in mandated change.
- In these novels, one comes to understand, as I elaborate in Chapter 5, the ways in which intercultural negotiations can become forms not only of 'othering' but also of selving – of processes by which one might reconstitute one's own self.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for selving. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA