单词 | self-lover |
释义 | self-lovern. A person who exhibits self-love (self-love n. 1); a person who shows excessive regard for his or her own interests; (also) a vain or conceited 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 society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > self-interest > [noun] > self-love > person self-lover1555 1555 M. Huggarde Mirrour of Loue sig. D.ii As of Christ him selfe truly lerne we may: He that loues his life shall lose it (sayth he) Here he declareth what selfe louers be. 1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. 239 Saint Paul [2 Tim. iii. 2] speaking of wicked men that should be in the latter times, saieth first, That they shoulde bee selfe-louers. 1653 J. Gauden Hieraspistes 525 Most men are so much self-flatterers, and self-lovers, that they are impatient of any defeats. 1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV i. iv. 120 Self is the last end of self-lovers, even in their highest acts of self-denial. 1741 S. Richardson Pamela IV. vi. 34 A Nurse..may be careless, and a Self-lover; while a Mother prefers the Health of her Child to her own private Satisfactions. 1860 Times 26 Sept. 7/2 A little camp..of well-meaning but weak hearts; of susceptible and jealous self-lovers. 1890 People's Press (London) 20 Dec. 11/2 The measure of personal liberty Englishmen at present enjoy in their industrial relations is..quite unfit for mere self-lovers. 1948 Observer 19 Sept. 3/4 The snob, the self-lover, the humbug—he may have been all these to some extent. 2011 Advertiser (Austral.) (Nexis) 14 June 20 Maybe it's time for parents, teachers and peers..to deliberately set about puncturing the over-inflated sense of self of these self-lovers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1555 |
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