self-beration

English

Etymology

From self- +‎ beration.

Noun

self-beration (uncountable)

1. (rare) Beratement of oneself.
   • 1983, Lynsey Stevens, Forbidden Wine‎^[1], Harlequin Books, →ISBN, page 8:

     However, this self-beration had little effect on her eyes as, with a will of their own, they touched on the curve of his lips.

   • 1999, Farid Esack, On Being a Muslim: Finding a Religious Path in the World Today‎^[2], Oneworld, →ISBN, page 53:

     There are a few things that I have always found helpful when I am reflecting upon where I am, without it degenerating into a futile exercise in narcissistic navel-gazing or self-beration.

   • 2009, Jacques Khalip, Anonymous Life: Romanticism and Dispossession‎^[3], Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 163‎^[4]:

     Writing in a post-Waterloo culture that repudiated the trappings of usurping authority and revolutionary time, Austen depicts Sir Walter as the perfect example of a subject born out of ressentiment, affectively retreading the ground of the past with an impotent self-beration that props up his calcified sense of prestige.