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Meanings of bildung in English

Development of one's mind or capacities through one's own efforts.

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        Examples for "self-cultivation"
        Examples for "self-cultivation"
        1
        A woman also needs self-cultivation, both physical and mental, in order to self-respect.
        Gala-Days
        2
        The com-parison of T'ai Chi Ch'uan to self-cultivation and good health goes without saying.
        Cheng Tzu's Thirteen Treatises on T'ai Chi Ch'uan
        3
        They practiced self-cultivation and seriousness & owned to a bewildering complexity of attitudes & rites.
        The new yorker
        4
        He understood that mankind believed in an unbroken work of development within nature, and in their own self-cultivation.
        The Malady of the Century
        5
        Do you know, he is very witty and well informed, though he says he never had much time for self-cultivation?
        A Modern Cinderella; Or, The Little Old Shoe, and Other Stories
        Usage of bildung in English
        1
        Culture, for which nearest German equivalent is Bildung, is the opposite of all this.
        The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, ...
        2
        (Vochting, "Ueber die Bildung der Knollen", Cassel, 1887; see also "Bot.
        Darwin and Modern Science
        3
        "Die fruchtbarste und allgemeinste Ursache der Varietaten-Bildung ist jedoch die Wahl der Lebens-Weise" (loc.
        More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 / A Record of His Work...
        Bildung through the time