单词 | self-applause |
释义 | self-applausen. Praise, commendation, or approval of oneself; self-congratulation. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > vainglory > [noun] vainglorya1300 gloryc1340 vaingloriousness1542 self-glory1549 self-flattery1574 self-praise1586 self-exaltation1615 self-applause1625 self-exalting1634 self-glorying1646 self-attribution1649 self-gloriation1654 self-congratulation1655 self-gratulation1697 self-glorification?1800 vaingloriness1820 1625 R. Bolton Some Gen. Direct. for Comfortable Walking with God 126 To proclaime many times with great noise, and selfe-applause, their owne idle malignant forgeries and fancies. 1678 A. Marvell Remarks Late Disingenuous Disc. 74 It's Insolent Boasting and Self-applause upon no occasion. 1728 A. Pope Dunciad i. 70 She..With self-applause her wild creation views. 1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random II. xliv. 76 He addressed me..with a smile of self-applause. 1816 S. Whelpley Lett. addressed to C. Strong v. 27 He..thinks with high gratulation and self-applause on the safety which his own arm afforded him. 1880 J. H. Burton Hist. Reign Queen Anne II. xi. 228 The exulting and abounding current of his self-applause. 1939 H. G. Wells Holy Terror iv. i. 345 The sense of being the overworked servant of mankind passed into a glow of righteous self-applause. 1972 ELH 39 410 Mrs. Bennet's self-applause for keeping Jane and Bingley together at Netherfield: ‘This was a lucky idea of mine, indeed!’ 2004 Investors Chron. (Nexis) 13 Feb. Management reviews..are too often an exercise in uncritical self-applause. Derivatives self-aˈpplausive adj. now rare engaging in, characterized by, or involving self-applause; cf. self-applauding adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > vainglory > [adjective] gloriousa1382 vainglorious?a1500 self-flatteringa1586 self-exalting1601 self-applauding1614 self-praised1626 self-flattered1647 self-glorying1659 self-exalted1668 self-gratulating1755 self-congratulating1774 self-congratulatory1798 self-applausivea1805 self-gratulatory1818 self-exaltative1821 a1805 D. Gilson Serm. Pract. Subj. (1807) vii. 136 A mind already wounded with..self-applausive—unnecessary advice. 1854 W. G. Simms Southward Ho! viii. 129 Here are texts to stimulate into eloquence a thousand annual self-applausive orators, for a thousand years to come. 1915 S. H. Adams Little Miss Grouch iii. 84 He burst into a paroxysm of self-applausive mirth over his joke. 1941 B. Tarkington Fighting Littles xiii. 118 The dancers..dropped sittingly, side by side, upon a sofa, screaming with self-applausive laughter. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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