Where does selfdom come from?

It is traced to Middle English.

selfdom

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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Archaic; Uncountable

""The target of the Jihad was a machine-attitude as much as the machines," Leto said. "Humans had set those machines to usurp our sense of beauty, our necessary selfdom out of which we make living judgments. Naturally, the machines were destroyed.""

From Middle English selfdom, from Old English selfdōm (“independence”), equivalent to self + -dom.

selfdoms (plural)

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