self-opinion

[ self-uh-pin-yuhn, self- ]

noun

1. opinion of oneself, especially when unduly high.

Word History and Origins

Origin of self-opinion¹

First recorded in 1570–80

Example Sentences

Every instinct, she found, every delicate self-opinion, was bound into Pleydon's success; the latter had kept her alive.

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She was entirely unconscious of the arrogance of self-opinion that was in all she said.

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I should be sorry to shock your self-opinion, but you were never more mistaken.

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From obedience and submission spring all other virtues, as all sin does from self-opinion.

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We feel faint and heartless, and without the smallest degree of self-opinion.

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