self-comˈplacency
[self- 3 a.]
= prec.
| 1687 Norris Coll. Misc. 302 Acts of self-complacency, whereby I delight and please my self in the perfections of my Nature. 1694 South Serm. 1 Cor. ii. 7 Wks. 1823 II. 396 To check those self-complacencies which it is apt to grow into. 1707 Norris Treat. Humility 26 To receive it modestly, without any expressions of self-complacency. 1817 Coleridge Statesm. Man. 36 In the blindness of self-complacency. 1879 Froude Cæsar xxviii. 490 About himself and his own exploits there is not one word of self-complacency. |