self-opinionn.

1553 T. Cole Godly & Frutefull Serm. sig. C.v^v But the worde of God doth not allow any man to contemne or mislike any publike order, set forth by his superiors... For this floure hath in it the making sauour of selfe opinion.

1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 245 All men that are wilfully geuen to a selfe opinion & obstinate minde, and who will neuer yeld to others reason, but to their owne, [etc.].

1646 E. Gregory Hist. Anat. Christian Melancholy 38 Let us then take heed, take heed I say lest our hearts bee hardned with stubbornesse and selfe opinion.

1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 443. ⁋5 Fortunatus is stocked with Ignorance, and consequently with Self-Opinion.

1867 E. Wrenford Philos. of Char. 29 Your bigot is opinionated. Your enthusiast is opinionated. But the tyrant reigns supreme in this realm of self-opinion!

2014 Lariat (Baylor University, Texas) (Nexis) 7 Feb. (Opinion section) 1 Central to the art of this active storytelling is learning better ways to separate an author's editorial dross from the golden truth. For the writer, fighting self-opinion is discipline.

1593 A. Chute Beawtie Dishonoured 22 When I saw I was so much desired, I seem'd transform'd as I had neuer bin. And selfe opinion wrought so strong effect, As now I grew to leaue all chast respect.

1633 C. Aleyn Battailes Crescey & Poictiers (ed. 2) 94 He's highly rais'd by flattering conceit And selfe opinion, that he might be strooke With greater ruine from so great a height.

1676 J. Dryden Aureng-Zebe Ep. Ded. I have labour'd..to divest my self of the self-opinion of an Author, and am too well satisfi'd of my own weakness, to be pleas'd with any thing I have written.

1721 B. Bayly Fourteen Serm. I. ix. 285 Must not this great Advantage, above other Mortals, swell and blow him up with Self-Opinion?

1757 Lloyd's Evening Post 30 Nov. 453/2 Self-opinion, arrogance, insolence, and impatience of rule, are its [sc. money's] almost inseparable companion.

1817 W. Scott Rob Roy I. v. 24 Perhaps you think I have some particular plan of storming you into admiration. I should be sorry to shock your self-opinion, but you were never more mistaken.

1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda II. iii. xxiii. 102 Her self-opinion rallied,..she was tempted to think that his judgment was not only fallible but biassed.

1927 Jrnl. Royal Inst. Internat. Affairs 6 286 His only outstanding feature was a strong self-opinion, sustained by personal courage.

1971 Reading Teacher 25 54/2 The low self opinion appears to be shared by both groups [of remedial readers].

2014 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 24 May 32 A healthy striver realises her own self-opinion is what ultimately matters, not praise—or displeasure—from anyone else.