self-respect
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
- The knowledge of one's own worth, valuing one's self; pride.
- 1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter XXIV, in Mansfield Park: […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II or III), London: […] T[homas] Egerton, […], OCLC 39810224:
- […] 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 223202227:
- 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 15383013, 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
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