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

Example Sentences

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

Miss Arbe chose now to conclude, that every objection was obviated; and Ellis strove vainly to obtain a moment's further attention, from the frivolous flutter, and fancied perplexities, of busy self-consequence.

From The Wanderer (Volume 2 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Burney, Fanny

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 Richardson, Samuel

The sawyer received all this with a humble self-consequence, as the infallible dicta of truth, and, apparently, with the utter oblivion of any such things existing as purl and red-hot pokers.

From Rattlin the Reefer by Marryat, Frederick