self-opinion
[ self-uh-pin-yuhn, self- ]
noun
opinion of oneself, especially when unduly high.
Origin of self-opinion
1First recorded in 1570–80
Words Nearby self-opinion
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How to use self-opinion in a sentence
Every instinct, she found, every delicate self-opinion, was bound into Pleydon's success; the latter had kept her alive.
Linda Condon | Joseph HergesheimerShe was entirely unconscious of the arrogance of self-opinion that was in all she said.
Hester, Volume 1 (of 3) | Margaret OliphantI should be sorry to shock your self-opinion, but you were never more mistaken.
Rob Roy, Volume 1., Illustrated | Sir Walter ScottFrom obedience and submission spring all other virtues, as all sin does from self-opinion.
We feel faint and heartless, and without the smallest degree of self-opinion.
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