self-oˈpinion Now rare.
[self- 1 d.]
High opinion of oneself, self-esteem; esp. overweening estimate of oneself, self-conceit; obstinacy in one's own opinion.
| 1579–80 North Plutarch, Coriol. (1595) 243 Wilfully giuen to a selfe opinion and obstinate minde. 1586 A. Day Eng. Secretary i. (1625) 11 Rather equity than selfe-opinion must and ought chiefly to be weighed. 1676 Dryden Aurengz. Ep. Ded. 7, I have labour'd..to divest my self of the self⁓opinion of an Author. 1712 Steele Spect. No. 443 ¶5 Fortunatus is stocked with Ignorance, and consequently with Self-Opinion. 1818 Scott Rob Roy vi, I should be sorry to shock your self-opinion, but you were never more mistaken. 1858 Bushnell Serm. New Life xxi. (1860) 297 The veils of pride are rent, the rock of self-opinion is shattered. 1876 Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. xxiii, Her self⁓opinion rallied,..she was tempted to think that his judgment was not only fallible but biassed. |