selving

noun

Etymology

From self + -ing.

  1. inherited from *selbʰ- — “one's own
  2. inherited from *selbaz
  3. inherited from self
  4. inherited from salve
  5. formed as selving — “self + -ing

Definitions

  1. 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

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA