self-ˈwisdom
[formed after next; cf. self- 5 b.]
The condition of being self-wise.
| 1571 Golding Calvin on Ps. ii. 10 The fond swelling of self-wysdome wherewith they are puffed up. 1625 Bacon Ess., Wisd. Man's Self (Arb.) 187 They become in the end themselves Sacrifices to the Inconstancy of Fortune; whose Wings they thought, by their Self-Wisedome, to haue Pinnioned. 1657 F. Cockin Div. Blossomes 46 By crucifying All earthly members, to self-wisdome dying. 1729 Law Serious C. xxii. 448 His own self-will and self-wisdom, is of more weight with him, than the will and wisdom of God. 1877 W. Bruce Comm. Rev. iii. 82 Happy are those who have so completely conquered their own self-love and self-wisdom. 1889 M. E. Bamford Up & down the Brooks 215 Those who know but little about them being much more elated with self-wisdom than those who know more. |