self-abandoned

American  

adjective

1. lacking self-control; giving in to one's impulses.

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Other Word Forms

• self-abandonment noun

Etymology

Origin of self-abandoned

First recorded in 1830–35; self- ( def. ) + abandoned ( def. )

Example Sentences

No man is so self-abandoned to despair and degradation, that at some casual moment thoughts of amendment—some gleams of hope, however faint and transient, from the distant future—will not visit him.

From The Evil Guest by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

The village itself was not far off, and sufficiently illustrated the condition of its unfortunate and self-abandoned occupants.

From The Oregon Trail: sketches of prairie and Rocky-Mountain life by Parkman, Francis

Tempted and friendless, self-abandoned to the evil impulse of the moment, this woman may have committed herself headlong to the act which she now vainly repents.

From The New Magdalen by Collins, Wilkie

How I wished that he was self-abandoned and even weak, so that he should have need of me, of my caress, of my tears!

From The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII. by Maupassant, Guy de

So stripped of stability was the pillar, that he was now a mere feather of humanity, self-abandoned to the clasp of the storm of the modern Babylon.

From Double Trouble Or, Every Hero His Own Villain by Lowell, Orson