单词 | self-secure |
释义 | self-secureadj. Secure in one's position or situation. Also: confident in one's own abilities, qualities, and judgement; self-confident. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > excessive self-confidence > [adjective] over-trusty?c1225 assured1477 self-wise1573 confident1600 flush1604 crested1619 sufficienta1625 self-sufficient1628 self-confiding1647 self-trustinga1660 self-secure1679 self-assured1711 cocksure1842 secure1859 self-sufficing1874 ten feet tall1962 1679 Third Advice to Painter Effigies Whore of Rome 1 Danger of Ruine was so nigh To us, whom once she thought so self-secure. a1711 T. Ken Hymnotheo i. in Wks. (1721) III. 17 The Youth gave to the Warning little Heed, He self-secure thought he should neither need. 1798 J. Jones Hobby Horses iv. 115 Falsely self-judg'd, and fondly self-secure, Too oft the Poet rushes to her lure. 1834 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 1 661/1 The most frugal and self-secure of sovereigns. 1849 M. Arnold Strayed Reveller, & Other Poems 50 Self-schooled, self-scanned, self-honoured, self-secure. 1969 Rev. Educ. Res. 37 402 Open climate schools tended to have confident, self-secure, cheerful, sociable and resourceful principals. 2000 Times 30 Mar. ii. 26/6 The drunk and increasingly desperate Bradley and Paul take out their frustrations on the smooth, self-secure Chris. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1679 |
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