English [ edit ] Etymology [ edit ] self- respect
self- respect uncountable
The knowledge of one's own worth, valuing one's self; pride .
1814 July, [Jane Austen] , chapter XXIV, in Mansfield Park: [ … ] (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 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 , Herbert, Frank , 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 [ edit ] knowledge of one's own worth
Arabic: please add this translation if you can
Armenian: ինքնասիրություն (hy) ( inkʿnasirutʿyun ) , արժանապատվություն (hy) ( aržanapatvutʿyun ) , թասիբ (hy) ( tʿasib )
Bulgarian: самоуваже́ние (bg) n ( samouvažénie )
Catalan: please add this translation if you can
Chinese:
Mandarin: 自尊 (zh) ( zìzūn ) , 自尊心 (zh) ( zìzūnxīn )
Min Nan: chì-khì chū-chun
Czech: sebeúcta (cs) f
Danish: selvrespekt c
Dutch: zelfrespect (nl) n
Esperanto: memrespekto
Estonian: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: itsekunnioitus (fi)
French: respect de soi m dignité personnelle f
German: Selbstachtung (de) f
Greek: αυτοσεβασμός (el) m ( aftosevasmós )
Ido: please add this translation if you can
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
Luxembourgish: please add this translation if you can
Manx: arrym er hene m
Maori: kiritau
Navajo: ádiłjídlį́ ádił ídlį́
Occitan: please add this translation if you can
Persian: please add this translation if you can
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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