单词 | self-fondness |
释义 | > as lemmasself-fondness self-fondness n. Brit. , U.S. great or excessive liking for oneself; (excessive) admiration of or pride in oneself or one's achievements.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. < as lemmas |
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