self-opinion
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of self-opinion
First recorded in 1570–80
Example Sentences
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He loves himself so much that he is startled if he discovers that his victims don’t share his vainglorious self-opinion.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
Doubtless I need not tell him that Burnett is not to be foster'd in self-opinion.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)
Some of these were excellently calculated to flatter the self-opinion and prejudices of the Calvinist ministers by whom she was attended, and accordingly bear in their very front the character of studied and voluntary imposture.
From Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft by Scott, Walter, Sir
I believe he may be by this time, but he is so full of self-opinion that I fear whether he and Phillips will ever do together.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)
His self-opinion, perhaps, was not risen so high as to permit him to use the sesquipedalian words and violent metaphors, to which he afterward seems to have given a preference.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 14 by Various
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