self-complacency
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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In the active virtues nature can have a large share, and a dangerous self-complacency, or satisfaction in their effects, may easily glide into them.
From Light and Peace Instructions for devout souls to dispel their doubts and allay their fears by Carlo Giuseppe Quadrupani
Even when he satirises himself his irony is only a veil—a very thin veil, which rather suggests than conceals his self-complacency.
From Sermons by J. B. Lightfoot
He takes the part which he thinks in most need of his support, not so much out of magnanimity, as to prevent too great a degree of presumption or self-complacency on the triumphant side.
From Winterslow Essays and Characters Written There by William Hazlitt
It is not said, of course, that the number of his faculties is limited and unlimited; or that his self-complacency is boundless and constrained; or that his act is conditioned and unconditioned.
From Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation by Jesse H. Jones
How needful, then, it is to raise a warning voice,—to seek, by faithful testimony, to counteract man's pitiable self-complacency.
From Notes on the Book of Genesis by Charles Henry Mackintosh
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