单词 | self-wisdom |
释义 | self-wisdomn. Reliance on one's own knowledge or intellectual ability, esp. as opposed to the wisdom of God. In later use frequently with neutral or positive meaning: knowledge of oneself. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > excessive self-confidence > [noun] overtrust?c1225 self-witc1425 self-trust1526 self-wisdom1571 self-assurance1595 confidence1599 self-confidence1604 self-security1606 self-sufficiencya1617 sufficiency1638 self-wittedness1647 self-trusting1658 self-poise1774 suffisance1781 cock-surety1819 disinvolturac1847 cocksureness1878 cocksureism1889 the mind > mental capacity > understanding > wisdom, sagacity > wise man, sage > pretender to wisdom, wiseacre > [noun] > condition of self-witc1425 self-wisdom1571 over wiseness1608 self-wittedness1647 over-wisdom1753 wiseacredness1848 wiseacreishness1895 1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (ii. 10) i. f. 6/1 The fond swelling of selfwysdome [L. inanis sapientiae fastus] wherwith they are puffed up. 1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 138 They become in the end themselves Sacrifices to the Inconstancy of Fortune; whose Wings they thought, by their Self-Wisedome, to haue Pinnioned. 1657 F. Cockin Divine Blossomes 46 By crucifying All earthly members, to self-wisdome dying. 1729 W. Law Serious Call xxii. 448 His own self-will and self-wisdom is of more weight with him, than the will and wisdom of God? 1763 W. Crookshank tr. H. Witsius Oeconomy of Covenants (new ed.) II. iii. vi. 478 It transforms them by its mad presumption, and compels them..to a conformity to the notions of its trifling presumptuous self-wisdom. 1877 W. Bruce Comm. Revel. iii. 82 Happy are those who have so completely conquered their own self-love and self-wisdom. 1889 M. E. Bamford Up & down Brooks 215 Those who know but little about them being much more elated with self-wisdom than those who know more. 1902 N.Y. Observer & Chron. 3 July 5/1 We put into our work all the practical clear self-wisdom that men can use in their every-day life. 2006 T. Longman Proverbs xvi. 467 The sad nature of this self-wisdom is that there is less hope for such persons than for a fool. 2009 PR Newswire (Nexis) 27 May A safe, nurturing environment that supports women on a path to greater self-wisdom and empowerment. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1571 |
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