单词 | self-gratulating |
释义 | self-gratulatingadj. Characterized by self-gratulation; self-congratulatory. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > vainglory > [adjective] gloriousa1382 vainglorious?a1500 self-flatteringa1586 self-exalting1601 self-applauding1614 self-praised1626 self-flattered1647 self-glorying1659 self-exalted1668 self-gratulating1755 self-congratulating1774 self-congratulatory1798 self-applausivea1805 self-gratulatory1818 self-exaltative1821 the mind > emotion > pleasure > contentment or satisfaction > self-satisfaction > [adjective] smug1551 fat1598 self-contented1631 self-pleased1633 self-satisfied1653 self-contenta1656 self-complacent1736 self-gratulating1755 complacent1767 well1773 self-congratulatory1798 comfortable1856 paddy1865 Podsnappian1866 cosy1927 1755 J. Hervey Theron & Aspasio III. xii. 242 Could this Queen speak in such admiring, rejoicing, self-gratulating Terms, of her royal Consort? 1827 J. F. Cooper Red Rover I. vii. 101 The Rover..stood for more than a minute in an attitude of high and self-gratulating triumph. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda III. vi. xlii. 214 The self-gratulating ignorant prosperity of the Cohens. 1905 S. A. Brooke Ten Plays Shakespeare (1906) iv. 104 Iago..attempts to account for his curious, self-gratulating pleasure in torturing Othello by pretending jealousy. 1988 Texas Stud. Lit. & Lang. 30 373 The boor in Donne's poem begins with a faint attempt at self-gratulating wit. 2008 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 152 523 These very images cast down the gauntlet to Britain's..self-gratulating attitude about promoting humanist values. Derivatives self-ˈgratulatingly adv. rare ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > vainglory > [adverb] for vaingloryc1380 vaingloriously1542 gloriously1566 self-gratulatingly1835 self-exaltingly1874 1835 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 2 533 Amusements and dissipations are self-gratulatingly denounced as gross follies and sins. 1998 J. G. Lawler Hopkins re-constructed (2000) i. 38 Our student of ‘contemplative psychology’ rather self-gratulatingly announces: ‘I read “Pied Beauty” as one large antithetical parallelism.’ This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1755 |
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