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self-respect

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Etymology

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From self- +‎ respect.

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Noun

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self-respect (uncountable)

  1. The knowledge of one's own worth, valuing one's self; pride.
    • 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XXIV, in Mansfield Park: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for 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."

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