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self-elected

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self-e·lect·ed (slf-lktd)
adj.
Self-appointed.

self-elected
adj
having been elected or appointed to a post, position, etc., by onself


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We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected.
Self-elected saints with gloomy brows, this sightless, earless, voiceless child may teach you lessons you will do well to follow.
And then three or four other hats, including the glossy castor of Joe Willis, the self-elected and would-be champion of the neighbourhood, a well-to-do young butcher of twenty-eight or thereabouts, and a great strapping fellow, with his full allowance of bluster.
 
 
 
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