: the giving up of oneself or one's will to some feeling or influence
Recovery requires much less than self-help; it requires self-surrender, to a higher power or cosmic truth or other nondenominational universal force. Wendy Kaminer

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The federal judge ruled that Mizuhara should self-surrender March 24. Elizabeth Both, NBC News, 7 Feb. 2025 Prosecutors said Vo was supposed to self-surrender to a federal facility in Kentucky in June 2024 but fled to Canada instead. Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1647, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of self-surrender was in 1647

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“Self-surrender.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/self-surrender. Accessed 26 Mar. 2025.

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