self-opinionatedadj.

1611 W. Vaughan Spirit of Detraction vi. xi. 339 There is nothing more dangerous then to be selfe opinionated against the experimented rules of the Churches reuerend sheepheards.

1650 M. Nedham Case of Common-wealth 74 It is impossible to devise any means to prevent those Inconveniences which will arise in a self-opinionated Multitude upon such an occasion, wherein they conceive themselves to have an equall Interest and power.

1719 S. Wright Little Treat. being born Again iv. 118 And now, from a furious, self-opinionated Persecutor, he [sc. St Paul] becomes a tractable, submissive Learner, of the Truth as it is in Jesus.

1800 M. A. Hanway Andrew Stuart IV. xviii. 344 Those who are..too self-opinionated to be taught.

1857 J. Toulmin Smith Parish (new ed.) 148 Self-opinionated doctrinairism.

1868 J. H. Blunt Reformation Church of Eng. I. 538 The young priest was far too self-opinionated to yield to argument.

1951 Z. N. Hurston Let. 7 Apr. in Life in Lett. (2002) 652 She is just as self-opinionated as ever, but as charming for her independence of spirit.

1988 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 3 June I do not always share his very self-opinionated views on some topics.

2011 Times 26 Nov. (Sport section) 3/2 Michael is always self-opinionated and has a right to his opinion... I disagree with him.

1649 J. Collinges Cordiall for Fainting Soule i. 6 The Christian is not self-opinionated: He cares not for false glasses, and is more apt to behold his graces in a diminishing then a multiplying glasse.

1674 R. Boyle Excellency Theol. ii. v. 187 Most men are so self-opinionated, that they will easily believe themselves masters of things, if they do but half understand them.

1739 G. Booth Considerations upon Inst. Marriage 112 He is so Self-opinionated, as not to perceive in himself those Deformities either of Body or Mind, which are apparent to all the rest of Mankind.

1772 J. Macgowan Infernal Conf. II. xiv. 105 How enamoured is the good man on the discovery of his own excellency: how much of the self opinionated strain flows from his boasting lips.

a1878 J. B. Mozley Serm., Parochial & Occas. (1879) xxvii. 295 Men..growing proud, arrogant, self-opinionated, vain-glorious, contemptuous to others.

1900 Sheffield & Rotherham Independent 27 Feb. 4/6 They were an arrogant, self-opinionated people, brought up in the belief that as they had beaten the English once they could beat them again.

1934 Chillicothe (Missouri) Constitution-Tribune 26 May 5/5 The plot [of ‘The Show Off’] concerns a good natured, self-opinionated, boastful fellow.

2015 Belfast Tel. (Nexis) 14 Nov. 6 I knew I wanted to write at seven or eight, but I kept quiet—didn't want to sound self-opinionated.

1668 R. Stedman Sober Singularity iii. 20 It seems to them to be an insolent thing, an act of pride, and self-opinionatedness.

1888 C. Gore Rom. Catholic Claims viii. 119 The temper of self-opinionatedness.

2008 S. Gordon-Schröder tr. C. Marx Oxwagon Sentinel i. iii. 49 In a society that is no longer at war, this moralising slips into petty dogmatism and self-opinionatedness.