self-consequence

American  

[self-kon-si-kwuhns, self-] / ˈsɛlfˈkɒn sɪ kwəns, ˌsɛlf- /

noun

1. self-important character or quality; self-importance.

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Etymology

Origin of self-consequence

First recorded in 1770–80

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Example Sentences

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self-consequence

It is essentially Friel's lack of self-consequence that makes her so appealingly distinct from other British actresses--and many American ones too.

From Time Magazine Archive

She had high animal spirits, and a sort of natural self-consequence, which the attentions of the officers, to whom her uncle’s good dinners and her own easy manners recommended her, had increased into assurance.

From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen

How his own pride, self-consequence, and self-sufficiency had been crushed out of him!

From True Riches Or, Wealth Without Wings by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

And yet it was some mortification to a person of her self-consequence, and gay appearance, to submit to be known by so fine a young gentleman as no more than a mercer's daughter.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 9 by Samuel Richardson

"A tall, gawky-looking, flaxen-haired stripling, apparently of the age of sixteen or eighteen, with complexion of a good parchment color, beardless chin, and as much assumed self-consequence as any two-footed animal I ever saw."

From Famous Americans of Recent Times by James Parton

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