self-opinionativeadj.

1584 B. Rich Don Simonides II. sig. S.ii^v Neither yet knew I any regiment fortunate, where either the Prince was self opinionatiue not respectyng lawe or the subiect so dissolute that he regarded not the Lawyer.

1696 E. Symson Farther Ess. Female-sex 29 She lives void of common sense by reason of this phantastical Self-opinionative Disposition, which makes her uneasy to others, as they seem unsufferable to her.

1791 G. Butt Serm. I. iii. 52 He is certainly to be numbered among those who readily prefer their own opinion to the prevailing opinions of mankind; it is therefore very probable that he is very self-opinionated.

1883 Househ. Words 9 June 112/2 A more tiresome, self-opinionative, egotistical little man could hardly have been found.

1904 H. Black Pract. Self Culture viii. 225 An unenlightened conscience..may become bigoted and fanatical, making a man self-opinionative and harsh.

2012 Waikato Times (Hamilton, N.Z.) (Nexis) 29 Nov. (Features, National section) 18 Unfortunately my opinion of this irresponsible self-opinionative mob would be unprintable.

1743 J. Hervey Let. 27 Aug. (1970) (Ph.D. thesis, Univ. of Nottingham) I. 238 Divorced we must be from our old husband, the law; divorced from the covenant of works; and no longer wedded, by self-opinionativeness, to our own righteousnesses.

1848 W. K. Kelly tr. L. Blanc Hist. Ten Years II. v. ii. 406 Lord Palmerston combined within himself all the defects regarded with most antipathy by Louis Philippe: pert foppishness, self-opinionativeness in the management of affairs, a taste for noise and excitement.

1959 J. Sidlow Baxter Awake, my Heart (1960) 34 We should avoid domineering self-opinionativeness, and develop comradeship.