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self-ˈconsequence [self- 5 a.] Self-importance.
1778F. Burney Evelina xxxiv. (1791) II. 225 By no means wanting in pride and self-consequence. 1829Scott Anne of G. xviii, To..enhance the self-consequence of a powerful ecclesiastic. 1873M. Arnold Lit. & Dogma (1876) 101 Warped by personal pretensions and self-consequence. So self-ˈconsequent a., self-important.
1878Mrs. H. Wood Pomeroy Ab. iii. viii, Jupiter, seated on Olympus,..never felt more self-consequent than does Jeffs feel, perched on his box-seat to-day. |