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In fact, it is more like self-deluding: that "wisely" is his self-commendation, and a prelude to succumbing completely to just such "admiration".

From The Guardian • Jun. 12, 2013

In all this glow and fervor of self-commendation, the late administration went out of office, having bequeathed the experiment, with all its blushing honors and rising glories, to its successor.

From The Works of Daniel Webster, Volume 1 by Webster, Daniel

For it was not because he was defamed himself, but he stood up for his friend776 that was abused, the occasion giving him a reasonable excuse for self-commendation.

From Plutarch's Morals by Shilleto, Arthur Richard

Following it out to blissful results, he had descried, without self-commendation, a fitness in it.

From Little Dorrit by Dickens, Charles

Vaisampayana continued, "Thus addressed by the cowherd in the presence of the females, in words breathing courage, the prince indulging in self-commendation within the female apartments, spoke these words."

From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Virata Parva by Ganguli, Kisari Mohan