in one's own right

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Idioms and Phrases

Through one's own skills or qualifications, as in He's a fine violinist in his own right , or She has a fortune in her own right . This term originally alluded to a legal title or claim, as in She was queen in her own right , but has been used more loosely since about 1600.

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Sincerely to give up one's conceit or hope of being good in one's own right is the only door to the universe's deeper reaches.

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Land was better protected when held of a powerful chieftain than when held in one's own right; and hence the practice of commendation, by which free allodial proprietors were transformed into the tenants of a lord, became fashionable and was gradually extended to all kinds of estates.

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But certainly I had been brought to the conclusion that "sincerely to give up one's conceit or hope of being good in one's own right is the only door to the Universe's deeper reaches."

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