self-respect

English

Etymology

self- +‎ respect

Noun

self-respect (uncountable)

1. The knowledge of one's own worth, valuing one's self; pride.
   • 1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter XXIV, in Mansfield Park: […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:

     […] he wished he had been a William Price, distinguishing himself and working his way to fortune and consequence with so much self-respect and happy ardour, instead of what he was!

   • 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:

     In the little chaos of Pearl's character there might be seen emerging […] an uncontrollable will—sturdy pride, which might be disciplined into self-respect—and a bitter scorn of many things which, when examined, might be found to have the taint of falsehood in them.

   • 1915, Virginia Woolf, chapter XIX, in The Voyage Out‎^[1]:

     Would any woman have behaved like that—if a man had said he didn’t want her? We’ve too much self-respect; we’re infinitely finer than they are.

   • 1965, Frank Herbert, Dune‎^[2] (Science Fiction), New York: Ace Books, →OCLC, page 112‎^[3]:

     “To hold Arrakis,” the Duke said, “one is faced with decisions that may cost one his self-respect.” He pointed out the window to the Atreides green and black banner hanging limply from a staff at the edge of the landing field. "That honorable banner could come to mean many evil things."

Translations

knowledge of one's own worth

• Afrikaans: please add this translation if you can
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• Armenian: ինքնասիրություն (hy) (inkʻnasirutʻyun), արժանապատվություն (hy) (aržanapatvutʻyun), թասիբ (hy) (tʻasib)
• Bulgarian: самоуваже́ние (bg) n (samouvažénie)
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• Chinese:

  Hokkien: chì-khì, chū-chun

  Mandarin: 自尊 (zh) (zìzūn), 自尊心 (zh) (zìzūnxīn)

• Czech: sebeúcta (cs) f
• Danish: selvrespekt c
• Dutch: zelfrespect (nl) n
• Esperanto: memrespekto
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• Finnish: itsekunnioitus (fi)
• French: respect de soi m, dignité personnelle f
• Georgian: თვითდაფასება (tvitdapaseba), თავმოყვარეობა (tavmoq̇vareoba)
• German: Selbstachtung (de) f, Selbstrespekt m, Selbstwertschätzung f
• Greek: αυτοσεβασμός (el) m (aftosevasmós)
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• Irish: féinmheas m
• Italian: autostima (it) f
• Japanese: 自尊 (ja) (じそん, jison), 自尊心 (ja) (じそんしん, jisonshin)
• Khmer: ការគោរពរាប់អានខ្លួនឯង (kaa kourup roap aan kluən ae ngɔɔ)
• Korean: 자존심 (ko) (jajonsim)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: pašcieņa f
• Lithuanian: savigarba f
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• Manx: arrym er hene m
• Maori: kiritau
• Navajo: ádiłjídlį́, ádił ídlį́
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• Polish: poczucie własnej wartości n, szacunek dla samego siebie m
• Portuguese: orgulho (pt) m, vergonha na cara f
• Romanian: respect de sine n
• Russian: чу́вство со́бственного досто́инства (ru) n (čúvstvo sóbstvennovo dostóinstva), самоуваже́ние (ru) n (samouvažénije)
• Scottish Gaelic: fèin-urram m
• Serbo-Croatian: samopoštovanje (sh)
• Spanish: autorrespeto m
• Swedish: självaktning (sv) c
• Vietnamese: lòng tự trọng
• Volapük: please add this translation if you can
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See also

• dignity
• self-esteem
• self-worth