单词 | autocritical |
释义 | autocriticaladj. Critical of oneself or one's own work; self-critical.In quot. 1642: †subject to the ultimate judgement of itself (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > discernment, discrimination > criticism > [adjective] > of oneself autocritical1642 1642 C. Herle Fuller Answer to Dr. Ferne 11 Thats the peculiar Priviledg of Gods word to be autocriticall, its own last Iudge. 1821 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 10 116 We differ..from the autocritical junto who are willing to dictate to us. 1850 L. Hunt Autobiogr. I. p. vi Coleridge's Literary Life is professedly autocritical. 1908 Amer. Med. Oct. 474/2 He is exceedingly thorough and auto-critical. 1957 R. Campbell Coll. Poems II. 132 No autocritical confession Could be extracted. 2006 Time Out N.Y. 3 Aug. 67/1 MoMA has a long history with such autocritical forms of artmaking. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1642 |
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