abound in one's own sense

Meaning: (idiomatic,dated)Tofollowone’s owninclinationsandopinions.1856,Ralph Waldo Emerson, “[journal entry]”, inThe Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, volume14, published1978,→ISBN,page45:But for that very reason that the conventional requires softness or impressionability to the dear little urbanities in you, if youabound in your own sense[…]they are weak, & soon at your mercy.1948,David Knowles,The Religious Orders in England, volume 1,page161:The clearly defined purpose of the order, and the full and all but dryly legalistic expressions of its constitutions left no scope for interpretersabounding in their own senseand made schism impossible.a.1963,Van Wyck Brooks,An Autobiography, published1965, page123:Having escaped what he described as the “Ph.D. death rattle,” Copeyabounded in his own senseat Harvard, where “Every man in his humour” was the motto for professors who were actors often and characters all the time.

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