to oneself
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.55 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
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Meaning
Example Sentences
- "John was very shy and to himself when he went to school that day."
- "At the centre of Stalin’s superiority over his competitors was certainly his intense will, just as Napoleon ranked what he called ‘moral fortitude’ higher in a general than genius or experience. When Milovan Djilas said to Stalin during the Yugoslav-Soviet discussions in Moscow during the war that the Serbian politician Gavrilović was ‘a shrewd man’, Stalin commented, as though to himself: ‘Yes, there are politicians who think shrewdness is the main thing in politics. . . .’⁴⁴ His was a will-power taken to a logical extreme. There is something non-human about his almost total lack of normal restraints upon it."
Etymology
From keep to oneself.
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