Definition of Self-direction

1. Noun. Personal independence.


Definition of Self-direction

1. Noun. (alternative spelling of selfdirection) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Self-direction

self-deprivation
self-deprivations
self-destroy
self-destruct
self-destructed
self-destructing
self-destruction
self-destructions
self-destructive
self-destructiveness
self-destructs
self-determination
self-determined
self-differentiation
self-directed
self-direction (current term)
self-discipline
self-disciplined
self-discovery
self-disgust
self-distance
self-distrust
self-doubt
self-doubts
self-drilling screw
self-drive
self-dual
self-educated
self-education
self-effacement

Literary usage of Self-direction

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The necessity of self-direction and of directing others, when one had charge of souls, produced documents, preserved in spiritual libraries, ..."

2. Some Dogmas of Religion by John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart (1906)
"We may call this, then, freedom of self-direction. When the word is used in this sense, I should not be called free to save a man when I fail to do so ..."

3. Principles of Social Science by Henry Charles Carey (1865)
"The more thorough the development of differences among men, and the more perfect the power of self-direction, the more complete becomes their ..."

4. The History of North America by Guy Carleton Lee (1904)
"CHAPTER XII SELF—DIRECTION AND DEVELOPMENT THE subject of baptism and the related question of qualification for church membership were a fruitful source of ..."

5. The Modern High School: Its Administration and Extension by Charles Hughes Johnston (1914)
"Development of Capacity for Self-Direction.—The particular plan or method for cultivating initiative and developing self-directive capacity is secondary. ..."

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