self-complacency
Americannoun
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Add to this Napoleon's opinion that the American was the superior of the English seaman, and national self-complacency may safely rest on two such eminent authorities.
From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Samuel Adams Drake
The slightest manifestation of jealousy or self-complacency is enough to261 mark a second-rate character of the intellect; and I fear that especially in Goethe, such manifestations are neither few nor slight.
From Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things by John Ruskin
The immoderate desire of sensible sorrow comes from self-love and self-complacency.
From Light and Peace Instructions for devout souls to dispel their doubts and allay their fears by Carlo Giuseppe Quadrupani
His self-complacency was possible only in a stage of evolution when the saint and the assassin were not altogether clearly differentiated.
From The Gentle Reader by Samuel McChord Crothers
In the active virtues nature can have a large share, and a dangerous self-complacency, or satisfaction in their effects, may easily glide into them.
From Light and Peace Instructions for devout souls to dispel their doubts and allay their fears by Carlo Giuseppe Quadrupani
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