| 单词 |
self-complacent |
| 释义 |
self-comˈplacent, a. [self- 3 a.] = complacent 2.
1763Churchill Rosciad 161 With a self-complacent jutting air, It smil'd, It smirk'd. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. v. I. 543 Selfcomplacent stupidity. 1878Gladstone Prim. Homer 148 The wisdom of Nestor is amusingly accompanied with self-complacent reflection. self-complaˈcential, -comˈplacing adjs., self-complacent; self-comˈplacently adv.
a1711Ken Hymnarium Poet. Wks. II. 109 Thy Love *self-complacential. 1806Knox Let. to Jebb 27 Oct., The sweet, rational, self-complacential, yea, direct, disinterested, delight.
a1700Ken Hymnotheo Poet. Wks. III. 304 God..Self-knowing, *Self-complacing on his Throne.
180.Foster Ess. i. iii. (1806) I. 49 As polemics most *self-complacently avow their opinions to be more firmly established by all that the opponent has objected. |

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