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self-praise
[self- 1 a.]
Praise or commendation of oneself.
1549Chaloner Erasm. on Folly A ij, Unles perhaps some be better acquainted with me, then this my self-prayse (as me seemeth) I maie well take vpon me. 1662Mr. Hobbes considered 57 That part of his self-praise which most offends you is in the end of his Leviathan. 1725Pope's Odyss. viii. Notes II. 225 Self-praise is sometimes no fault. 1826Cobbett's Reg. LVIII. 743/1 In general it is a good rule..that self-praise is no commendation. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair xxxv, Osborne broke out into a rhapsody of self-praise and imprecations. 1856Grote Hist. Greece ii. xciv. XII. 260 These and other self-praises disparaging to the glory of Alexander.
So self-praised pa. pple.
1621G. Sandys Ovid's Met. vi. (1626) 110 A Stork; who, with white pinions rais'd, Is euer by her creaking bill selfe⁓prais'd. |