self-reflectionn.

1624 E. Bolton Nero Caesar xxix. 226 He vainely included the temple of Fortvne, which builded all of a transparent stone, called phengit, was internally as bright as day by selfe-reflections.

1636 W. Davenant Platonick Lovers ii. i. sig.D 4 The fam'd Antipheron, whom once the learned Stagerite Admir'd so for the selfe-reflection that He wore like to his perfect Image still where hee mov'd.

1706 D. Defoe Jure Divino xii. 7 Their empty Clamours, Self-Reflections raise, And all their Malice suffocates in praise.

1851 Morning Chron. 8 Jan. 7/3 She makes what she sees, and objects to her are but self-reflections.

1940 W. D. D. Lowrie tr. S. Kierkegaard Stages on Life's Way 80 Before long every woman will be satanized by the crazy and defiling self-reflection of fashion.

2013 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 25 Oct. (Go! Mag.) 16 Infinite self-reflections from a foggy maze of mirrors.

1644 T. Hill Season for Englands Selfe-reflection 16 When once a sinner by his self-reflection hath learned to renounce his evils, the Lord is most ready to embrace him as a reconciled Father.

c1670 O. Heywood Autobiogr., Diaries, & Event Bks. (1881) II. 332 How usefull is this self-reflexion in order to a fast.

1745 J. Mason Treat. Self-knowl. i. 9 Men will not think... By which unaccountable Indolence, Oscitancy, and Aversion to Self-Reflection, they are lead [sic] blindfold and insensibly into the most dangerous Paths of Infidelity and Wickedness.

1810 S. T. Coleridge Friend 25 Jan. 352 A moment's steady self-reflection will shew us, that in the simple determination ‘Black is not White’..all the powers are implied, that distinguish Man from Animals.

a1882 T. H. Green Proleg. Ethics (1883) §94 Self-reflection is the only possible method of learning what is the inner man or mind that our action expresses.

1929 E. G. Wilkins Delphic Maxims in Lit. xi. 204 Despite the extreme practicality of our day,..there are those who still insist upon the value of a certain amount of self-reflection.

2017 Philadelphia Inquirer (Nexis) 2 Mar. (Sports section) In a moment of self-reflection, Roseman wondered if what they've done in the past was the right strategy.

1656 W. Troughton Myst. Marriage Song 42 Oh what dismal thoughts, what dreadful self-reflections, what unspeakable horrours will possess thy soul, when it departs out of the body!

1681 J. Owen Φρονημα του Πνευματος i. iv. 59 We can omit and lose such..Opportunities..without regret or self-reflections.

1697 G. Burghope Disc. Relig. Assemblies Ded. They can hear the call to church, and see others go, and yet stay at home without any self-reflections.

1706 S. Browne Caveat against Evil Company 88 You shall never have any uneasy, reproachful Self-Reflections on the Folly and Madness of your Converse.

1844 E. Miall Bible Monopoly 5 I wonder that any man who finds himself in the enjoyment of it [sc. monopoly]..can pursue his ordinary walk through life without being absorbed in self-reflections.