noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Noun

1. 1
   The state of one's own self or identity; one's conscious personality. uncountable

   "Our Humane Will dyed away in the Death of Christ from its own I-hood, and own Willing."

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i-nessi-ship

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"Our Humane Will dyed away in the Death of Christ from its own I-hood, and own Willing."

Etymology

From I + -hood, chiefly a calque of German Ichheit (“selfhood”). Compare also Dutch ikheid (“individuality”).

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