| 单词 |
self-liking |
| 释义 |
† self-ˈliking, vbl. n. Obs.
[self- 1. Cf. OE. selflíce self-love, self-satisfaction.]
Self-love; attachment to one's own opinion, self-conceit.
1561T. Hoby tr. Castiglione's Courtyer Zz iv b, Giue her self to vnderstand the full troth in euery thyng, without entring into self leeking and ignorance. 1594Hooker Eccl. Pol. Pref. vi. §3 So full of wilfulnes and selfe liking is our nature. 1623Camden Rem. (1637) 230 So over-gulled with selfe-liking, that they are more then giddy in admiring themselves. 1638Junius Paint. Ancients 191 It is not amisse there should be perceived some kinde of selfe-liking and hardnesse in the works of excellent Artificers. 1714Mandeville Fab. Bees (1729) ii. 134 The Reasons why this Self-liking, give me Leave to call it so, is not plainly to be seen in all Animals that are of the same Degree of Perfection, are many.
So † self-ˈliking ppl. a.
a1586Sidney Arcadia iii. (1605) 337 Spacious romes, such as the self-liking men, haue..found out the most easeful. |
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