Autobiography
[ɔːtəbaɪ'ɒgrəfɪ] or [,ɔtəbaɪ'ɑɡrəfi]
Definition
(n.) A biography written by the subject of it; memoirs of one's life written by one's self.
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Definition
n. the biography or life of a person written by himself.—n. Autobiog′rapher one who writes his own life.—adjs. Autobiograph′ic -al.
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Examples
- His autobiography is curious, and its note of sincerity has given it great value as a human document. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Now the trouble with such an idol is that autobiography creeps in anyway. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- But this is not to be a regular autobiography. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- In that spiritual autobiography of a searching mind, The New Machiavelli, Wells describes his progress from a reformer of concrete abuses to a revolutionist in method. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Dorothea was led on to this bit of autobiography without any sense of making a revelation. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- A notion of intellectual honor fights against it: we think we must aim at final truth, and not allow autobiography to creep into speculation. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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