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self-ˈcriticism
[self- 1 a.]
1. Criticism of oneself.
1857Geo. Eliot Ess. (1884) 8 The self-criticism which prompted the suppression of the dedication. 1926J. S. Huxley Essays in Popular Science 162 The normal tendency of strongly-felt religious emotion to..set itself up as an absolute standard untempered by tolerance or by the self-criticism of reason. 1937O. Jespersen in S.P.E. Tract xlviii. 269 While one pronounces the beginning of an utterance the mind is busy preparing the rest, not only what to say, but how to say it. But most of this linguistic self-criticism is..lost to the world. 1956H. Kurnitz Invasion of Privacy ii. 20 In this last phrase of good-natured self-criticism, Stradling's voice shifted into a glacial gear. 1977Lancet 13 Aug. 357/1 Dr Bartsch reiterates our self-criticism that the two groups of patients were not comparable in all respects.
2. Pol. Criticism undertaken publicly by oneself of one's actions, attitudes, or policies, considered as a duty in order to ensure conformity with communist party doctrine. Also transf.
1933E. & C. Paul tr. Stalin's Leninism II. 122 An abyss divides the self-criticism of the opposition..from Bolshevik self-criticism, the purpose of which is to strengthen the Party spirit. 1966J. Bingham Double Agent vii. 101 Colonel Golchenko has performed an act of self-criticism in accordance with the principles of our party. 1976M. Machlin Pipeline x. 116 Finally, after a scathing self-criticism session in the collective's skid row tenement in Seattle, Sonia decided she had had enough. 1978D. Bloodworth Crosstalk x. 84 She was in trouble—public accusations that she was a counterrevolutionary, self-criticism sessions, denunciations,..the works. |