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单词 self-criticism
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self-criticismn.

Brit. /ˌsɛlfˈkrɪtᵻsɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˌsɛlfˈkrɪdəˌsɪz(ə)m/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: self- prefix, criticism n.
Etymology: < self- prefix + criticism n.In sense 2 after German Selbstkritik (late 18th cent.) and, in later use, after Russian samokritika (1904 or earlier in this sense; after German). With later uses with reference to China, compare Chinese zìwǒ pīpíng (Mao Zedong 1942 or earlier; < zìwǒ oneself + pīpíng to criticize, criticism; after Russian).
1. Criticism of oneself or one's own actions.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > discernment, discrimination > criticism > [noun] > of self
self-criticism1780
autocritique1856
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > criticism > [noun] > of self
self-criticism1780
self-flagellation1837
1780 London Mag. Jan. 5/1 My last number treated of revision and correction by an authour of his own works. It may perhaps be thought by some, that this self-criticism will be always exceedingly gentle.
1857 ‘G. Eliot’ in Westm. Rev. Jan. 5 The self-criticism which prompted the suppression of the dedication.
1875 Brit. Q. Rev. July 223 It was one of the evil results of his early and unwilling need to go upon the stage that developed in Macready a morbidly sensitive self-criticism.
1926 J. S. Huxley Ess. Pop. Sci. 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.
1956 H. Kurnitz Invasion of Privacy ii. 20 In this last phrase of good-natured self-criticism, Stradling's voice shifted into a glacial gear.
1977 Lancet 13 Aug. 357/1 Dr Bartsch reiterates our self-criticism that the two groups of patients were not comparable in all respects.
2008 HIV Plus Jan. 13/3 Your emotional well-being and self-esteem take a serious hit from self-criticism.
2. Politics. Public criticism by a person of his or her own actions, attitudes, or policies, considered as a duty in order to ensure conformity with communist or socialist doctrine. Also in extended use.
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1901 tr. Resolution in Internat. Socialist Rev. Nov. 381 The congress [sc. the Lübeck congress of the German Social Democratic Party] recognizes without restriction the necessity of self-criticism [Ger. Selbstkritik] for the intellectual development of the party.
1933 E. Paul & C. Paul tr. J. Stalin 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.
1966 J. Bingham Double Agent vii. 101 Colonel Golchenko has performed an act of self-criticism in accordance with the principles of our party.
1976 M. 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.
1978 D. Bloodworth Crosstalk x. 84 She was in trouble—public accusations that she was a counterrevolutionary, self-criticism sessions, denunciations,..the works.
2008 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 3 Apr. 40/1 He then further sealed his fate by declining to write the kind of ‘self-criticism’ that is customary in the Chinese Communist Party when one is disgraced.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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