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1595 E. Spenser Colin Clouts come Home Againe sig. D2 But selfe-regard of priuate good or ill, Moues me of each, so as I found, to tell.

1654 W. Montagu Miscellanea Spiritualia: 2nd Pt. vii. 127 They can have no discernment of either sufferance or ease, from whence may result proprietie, or self-regard.

1693 J. Norris Pract. Disc. Divine Subj. III. 265 Without being sway'd by any by, private or self-regards.

1705 A. Pope Corr. 30 Apr. (1956) I. 8 The Friendship..is the more likely to be true, and unmix'd with too much Self-regard.

1794 W. Godwin Things as they Are III. 284 I thought that in this business I had risen superior to personal considerations, and judged with a total neglect of the miserable suggestions of self-regard.

1828 W. Hazlitt Life Napoleon Buonaparte I. vi. 349 France..had but one resource left,..to throw aside all self-regards and all regards for others, and..to discard all obligations.

1844 Biogr. Dict. (Soc. Diffusion Useful Knowl.) III. 465/1 The calculating self-regard of the individual.

1938 Times Lit. Suppl. 8 Oct. 635/2 A character formed on the basis of Self-regard is stronger and better..than one formed on a basis of Other-regard alone.

2009 Brit. Jrnl. Polit. Sci. 39 323 The same reasons that justify a state's self-regard also justify its regard for other states.

1761 J. Kirkpatrick Anal. Inoculation (ed. 2) Pref. p.xvi I..sincerely invite the most capable Detractor from the Analysis of Inoculation..to analyse the Matter and Manner of it, with the justest Severity, his Self-regard will allow him to prefix his Name to.

1811 Ld. Byron Hints from Horace 741 If friendship's nothing, self-regard might teach More polish'd usage of his parts of speech.

a1832 J. Bentham Deontology (1834) II. 277 Pride is undoubtedly gratified by being enabled to deal out its animadversions, and self-regard is flattered.

1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits ix. 150 This little superfluity of self-regard in the English brain, is one of the secrets of their power.

1921 R. Briffault Psyche's Lamp viii. 201 They are at the same time the type of self-regard, of vanity, of exaltation of self, self-admiration and desire for admiration.

1990 J. Burchill Sex & Sensibility (1992) 141 Such an admission would cause an implosion of self-worth and self-regard.

2011 Times 12 Dec. 49/1 He would regularly say to his primary school headmistress, ‘Aren't I wonderful?’ This extraordinary self-regard was a trait that never deserted him.