self-contemptn.

1563 L. Humphrey Nobles or of Nobilitye iii. sig. t.vii Whych consideracion bringeth modesty, and selfe contempt.

1591 R. Southwell Marie Magdalens Funeral Teares f. 68 A submitted soule..the deeper it sinketh in a selfe contempt [etc.].

1641 J. Short Soliloquies Theologicall 51 Whose welcome feare my spirit raises To such an heighth of self-contempt.

1688 J. Dryden tr. D. Bouhours Life St. Francis Xavier vi. 718 Having spoken of God to them, after a most magnificent and elevated manner, he spake of himself, in terms so humble, and with so much self contempt, that all of us, were much edify'd by his procedure.

a1711 T. Ken Christophil in Wks. (1721) I. 504 Thou Self-contempt didst practise and instil.

1798 Bell's Weekly Messenger 29 July 236/2 The wretch who has done so, lives a prey to self-contempt, and to sullen remorse.

1821 P. B. Shelley Adonais xxxvii. 19 Remorse and Self-contempt shall cling to thee.

1861 G. J. Whyte-Melville Good for Nothing II. 157 An expression in which joviality, recklessness, and a certain sorrowing self-contempt were strangely mingled.

1905 Pop. Sci. Monthly Dec. 713 I hope that they may become acquainted with extreme self-contempt, the torture of self-distrust, the misery of defeat.

1970 A. McCaffrey Ship who Sang vi. 227 ‘You are undoubtedly the most unscrupulous supervisor in the Service,’ she agreed, countering his scathing self-contempt with unruffled humor.

1994 Queen's Q. Fall 699 Viewers themselves watched television with..self-contempt for having wasted so many hours, weeks, and years in front of the idiot box.

2016 Sunday Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 9 Oct. 41 Shame..is less about the pain of others and much more about the agony of self-contempt.