self-significance
- a word derived from significance.
Example Sentences
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It was taking too much notice of him: it was adding to his self-significance; and a call upon him to treat you with insolence.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2 by Richardson, Samuel
But apart from this urgent passion, there are many quieter ways in which the same spirit, the same emotion, which is nothing but a sense of self-significance, comes into the soul.
From Joyous Gard by Benson, Arthur Christopher
