α. 1600s– self-idolater.
β. 1800s– self-idolator.
单词 | self-idolater |
释义 | self-idolatern.α. 1600s– self-idolater. β. 1800s– self-idolator. A person who idolizes or worships himself or herself; a vain or self-regarding person. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > self-esteem > vanity > [noun] > vain person puppy?1544 self-lover1555 coxcomb1567 feather-cock1612 self-admirer1633 self-idolater1643 cockcomb1684 peachick1693 worship-willer1721 narcissus1767 narcissist1917 1643 H. Palmer Necessity of Venturing for Churches Help 20 The generall corruption that is in all naturally, namely self-love, which makes men self-idols, and self-idolaters. 1750 W. Hodges Elihu iii. 117 The adored object of the Self-Idolater—is the Image of God made ugly by Guilt and defaced by Pride. 1844 Ld. Leigh Walks in Country 125 And self-idolaters in drawling tone Whine about ‘brethren dear’, yet care for none. 1871 Nonconformist 27 Dec. 1270/3 I treated him with contemptuous silence. This was more than the grotesque vanity of that huge self-idolator could stand. 1918 L. H. Bailey What is Democracy? iii. 59 There are lazy folk, indifferent folk, non-contributors, gossipers, self-idolators, leeches that suck the blood of the community. 1994 H. Bloom Western Canon iii. xv. 357 What is he, we say, except a kind of..bogus poet, a narcissist, absurd self-idolater? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1643 |
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