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self-oˈpinion Now rare.
[self- 1 d.]
High opinion of oneself, self-esteem; esp. overweening estimate of oneself, self-conceit; obstinacy in one's own opinion.
1579–80North Plutarch, Coriol. (1595) 243 Wilfully giuen to a selfe opinion and obstinate minde. 1586A. Day Eng. Secretary i. (1625) 11 Rather equity than selfe-opinion must and ought chiefly to be weighed. 1676Dryden Aurengz. Ep. Ded. 7, I have labour'd..to divest my self of the self⁓opinion of an Author. 1712Steele Spect. No. 443 ⁋5 Fortunatus is stocked with Ignorance, and consequently with Self-Opinion. 1818Scott Rob Roy vi, I should be sorry to shock your self-opinion, but you were never more mistaken. 1858Bushnell Serm. New Life xxi. (1860) 297 The veils of pride are rent, the rock of self-opinion is shattered. 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. xxiii, Her self⁓opinion rallied,..she was tempted to think that his judgment was not only fallible but biassed. |