| 单词 | self-regard |
| 释义 | self-reˈgard
[self- 1 a, 3 a.]
1. Regard of or consideration for oneself.
1595Spenser Col. Clout 682 But selfe-regard of priuate good or ill, Moues me of each, so as I found, to tell. 1691–8Norris Pract. Disc. (1711) III. 185 Without being sway'd by any by, private, or self-regards. 1705Pope Let. to Wycherley 30 Apr., The friendship..is the more likely to be true and unmixed with too much self-regard. 1890Spectator 11 Jan. 43/2 Effectually fusing the indifference and cool self-regard of others.
2. = self-respect 3.
1811Byron Hints fr. Hor. 741 If friendship's nothing, self-regard might teach More polish'd usage of his parts of speech. 1856Emerson Eng. Traits, Cockayne 83 This little superfluity of self-regard in the English brain, is one of the secrets of their power.
So self-reˈgardant a., -reˈgarding ppl. a., looking towards or centring upon oneself, marked by self-regard; watchful of oneself; self-reˈgardless a., -reˈgardlessness.
1840C. H. Townshend Facts in Mesmerism iii. ii. 294 To be *self-regardant and watchful of our own sensations as they arise. 1895N. Amer. Rev. Aug. 237 Man is not only a self-regardant but a sympathetic..being.
1789Bentham Princ. Legisl. p. xxxviii note, The pleasures and pains of amity and enmity are of the *self-regarding cast. 1868Bain Ment. & Mor. Sci. iv. x. 393 The application of Prudential or self-regarding motives. 1907Illingworth Doctr. Trin. vii. 140 Certain personal or self-regarding virtues..consisting chiefly in habits of propriety and self-control.
1899Daily News 2 Oct. 6/4 The courage and *self-regardless patriotism of youth.
1870Black Kilmeny xxvi, Wonderful self-possession and *self-regardlessness. |
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