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
The reason is, that not truth, but self-opinion is the ruling principle of Mr. Southey's mind.
From The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits by William Hazlitt
Her self-opinion rallied, and since the counselor whom she had called in gave a decision of such severe peremptoriness, she was tempted to think that his judgment was not only fallible but biased.
From Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
It was so foolish, and based on such foolish misconception; it sprang from such over-weening, arrogant self-opinion that it deserves the bitter punishment which will come; which is coming; which is with me now!
From The Man by Bram Stoker
The latter had suffered no diminution of their privileges; they had too much for which the young men, for all their self-opinion, got nothing or next to nothing in return.
From San Crist?bal de la Habana by Joseph Hergesheimer
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