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self-oˈpinionated, ppl. a.
[f. self-opinion.]
1. Having an exaggerated opinion of oneself; self-conceited.
1671Stillingfl. Serm. viii. Wks. 1710 I. 114 There never was a nation more self-opinionated as to their wisdom, goodness, and interest with God. 1674Boyle Excell. Theol. ii. v. 187 Most men are so self-opinionated, that they will easily believe themselves masters of things, if they do but half understand them. 1825Hazlitt Spirit of Age 372 He is no formalist, not he! All is crude and chaotic, self-opinionated, vain.
2. Obstinate in one's opinion.
1770Langhorne Plutarch (1879) II. 590 A body of Germans, who were so rash and self-opinionated as to separate from the troops of Spartacus. 1857Toulmin Smith Parish 148 Self-opinionated doctrinairism. 1868J. H. Blunt Ref. Ch. Eng. I. 538 The young priest was far too self-opinionated to yield to argument.
Hence self-oˈpinionatedness; so self-oˈpinionative a., self-oˈpinionativeness.
1730Bailey (fol.), Affectation, Affectedness, Conceitedness, *Self-opinionatedness. 1888Gore R.C. Claims viii. 119 The temper of self-opinionatedness.
1904H. Black Pract. Self-Culture viii. 225 A man *self-opinionative and harsh.
1857Pusey Real Presence i. (1869) 65 Whose docility, unspoiled by any *self-opinionativeness. |