self-estimation
- a word derived from estimation.
Example Sentences
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It is an act of will, and, even when done as an adult, more an assertion of one’s own identity and self-estimation than an appraisal of the particular merits of a person or thing.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 21, 2018
He was proud, I have said, and haughty; but he was essentially modest and humble in his self-estimation.
From The Eustace Diamonds by Trollope, Anthony
And any woman who would obey the nod of a tyrant, to become his wife, could never expect to enjoy any self-estimation afterwards.
From The History of Margaret Catchpole A Suffolk Girl by Cobbold, Richard
Her daughter Melinda, of whom she was excessively vain, was an indolent, uninteresting girl, too dull to imbibe even a small portion of her mother's self-estimation.
From Home Lights and Shadows by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)
That is to say, in general the error of self-estimation tends to be half again as great as the average error of the judgments of associates.
From Vocational Psychology: Its Problems and Methods by Hollingworth, Harry L.
