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self-pride
[self- 3 a.]
Pride in oneself, one's achievements, one's position; personal pride.
a1586Sidney Arcadia (1622) 289 Puffing them vp by being besought, with such a selfe-pride of superiority. 1632Strafford in Browning Life (1891) 301 That self pride which hath to our owne esteeme, represented vs much bigger..then in deed ther is cause for. 1729Law Serious C. xviii. 341 Banish..every thought of self-pride and self-distinction. 1822C. Colton Lacon II. cxxxviii. 104 This Self-pride is the common friend of our humanity. 1865Flor. Marryat Love's Confl. xxxix, George Treherne's self-pride came to his aid in this place, and stood him in the stead of virtue. 1907Ch. Q. Rev. July 471 To gratify private pride and self⁓interest in the first case, then the self-pride of the Suprema. |