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self-admiˈration
[self- 1 a.]
Admiration of oneself, self-conceit.
1661Boyle Style of Script. (1675) 197 The quiet Enjoyment of their unenvi'd Self-admiration. a1761Law Comf. Weary Pilgr. (1809) 83 They..full of self-esteem, and self-admiration, for their own progress in them. 1888F. Cowper Captain of Wight (1889) 58 At first the sense of shyness had kept this feeling of self-admiration down.
So self-adˈmired ppl. a., self-adˈmirer, self-adˈmiring ppl. a.
1785G. A. Bellamy Apol. (ed. 3) VI. 98 My *self-admired person. 1863I. Williams Baptistery i. ii. (1874) 17 Folding his in self-admir'd repose.
1690C. Nesse Hist. & Myst. O. & N. Test. I. 204 A contrary state and temper of the heart in self-admiration secludes such *self-admirers.
1621Sandys Ovid's Met. iii. (1632) 92 Deaths cold hand shuts his *selfe-admiring eyes. 1711Shaftesbury Charac., Misc. Refl. III. 300 The self-admiring Wits. 1871Geo. Eliot Middlem. (1872) I. i. i. 7 Dorothea..was open, ardent, and not in the least self-admiring. 1951M. McLuhan Mech. Bride (1967) 141/1 Is this little tough the twin brother of any self-patting, self-admiring deb? 1981J. Carey John Donne iv. 99 His poems..though self-absorbed..are not self-admiring. |