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单词 self-elation
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self-elation
self-elation n.
Brit. /ˌsɛlfᵻˈleɪʃn/
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U.S. /ˌsɛlfəˈleɪʃ(ə)n/
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/ˌsɛlfiˈleɪʃ(ə)n/
pride in oneself or one's achievements; (chiefly in negative sense) self-satisfaction, vainglory.
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1650 J. Godolphin Holy Limbeck 172 Little think our Philosophical Longobards..that their self-elation contracts this guilt, when Idolizing their own endowments.
1795 H. Hunt Divine Presence Best Protection 21 Self elation or despising of others: that acknowledged sin of this nation.
1844 W. H. Mill 5 Serm. Temptation Christ v. 133 The grounds of self-elation..were..the revelations with which he had been favoured by God.
1913 J. Orr Hist. & Lit. Early Church xi. 151 With this tendency to self-elation went a strong dash of personal vanity and growing love of splendour.
1993 B. Ramsay Submitting to Freedom iii. 62 Rather than work their way through the collapse of self-definitions, Americans simply raised over them a set of clichés that would provide a feeling of self-elation.
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