| 释义 |
self-trust
[self- 1 a.]
= self-confidence.
1583Golding Calvin on Deut. ii. 12 Let vs vnderstand that there is no strength in vs, and that we must rid our selues of all selfetrust. 1593Shakes. Lucr. 158 Then where is truth if there be no selfe trust? 1841Emerson Ess., Heroism 253 Self-trust is the essence of Heroism. 1862Goulburn Pers. Relig. 145 Those..who in one and the same act of faith have renounced both self-will and self-trust. 1875Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. ii. Wordsworth, Wordsworth had that self-trust which in the man of genius is sublime.
So self-ˈtrusting vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1685Baxter Paraphr. N.T. Matt. vi. 32 By *self-trusting and self-seeking [they] are drowned in worldly love and care.
1842Manning Serm. x. (1848) I. 144 The more learned, toilsome, and *self-trusting it [viz. the world] has become. 1868J. H. Newman Verses on Var. Occas. 157 Men close the door, and dress the cheerful hearth, Self-trusting still. |