self-commendation
- a word derived from commendation.
Example Sentences
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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
Following it out to blissful results, he had descried, without self-commendation, a fitness in it.
From Little Dorrit by Dickens, Charles
He could not but be rather pleased with himself for the way in which he had carried through his job, and Cicely gained the advantage of his self-commendation.
From The Squire's Daughter Being the First Book in the Chronicles of the Clintons by Marshall, Archibald
Paul cannot have written in self-commendation on more than one occasion, and he promises not to repeat this in iii.
From The Making of the New Testament by Bacon, Benjamin Wisner
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
