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self-fondness
self-fondness n.
Brit. 
/ˌsɛlfˈfɒn(d)nəs/
, /ˌsɛlfˈfɒn(d)nəs/U.S. /ˌsɛlfˈfɑn(d)nəs/
great or excessive liking for oneself; (excessive) admiration of or pride in oneself or one's achievements./ˌsɛlfˈfɑn(d)nəs/ΚΠ
1609 F. Greville Trag. Mustapha sig. Bv Shall selfe-fondnesse put out iust suspition? ---Conceit must not be guide of Loue or Anger.
1734 I. Watts Reliquiæ Juveniles (1789) 121 By the influence of the same native principle of flattery and self-fondness.
1800 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1956) I. 636 A man should nurse his opinions in privacy & self-fondness for a long time.
1939 P. Grainger Let. 25 Feb. in All-round Man (1994) 159 The selffondness of all the other races makes them eager to breed, work & get on with each other.
2014 C. Rawson Swift's Angers 17 The idiom is swaddled in the element of cute self-fondness.., an idiom determined to register self-praise but embarrassed to do so overtly.
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- spectre-bat
- spectre-candle
- spectre-chimera
- spectre-crab
- spectre-doubt
- spectre-faint
- spectre-fashion
- spectre-fighting
- spectre-haunted
- spectre-horse
- spectre-lean
- spectre-lemur
- spectre-like
- spectre-looking
- spectre-mantis
- spectre-mongering
- spectre-pale
- spectre-pallid
- spectre-queller
- spectre-shell
- spectre-shrimp
- spectre-staring
- spectre-thin
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