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Meanings of self-loving in English

Characteristic of those having an inflated idea of their own importance.

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Usage of self-loving in English
1
How entirely different from this easy, self-loving, human forgiveness is the Divine Forgiveness of Christ!
Paradoxes of Catholicism
2
To take back what once belonged to them, and that is a self-loving and confident self.
The South African
3
We can be bold, and pro-woman, and self-loving but we cannot make others see and value us.
Ebony
4
The colors were ebbing from her fantasy, her self-loving pleasures in movement and balance were fading, her arm was aching.
Atonement
5
Of course they are justly reproached who are Self-loving in this sense.
The Ethics of Aristotle
6
In this sense it is right to be Self-loving, in the vulgar acceptation of the term it is not.
The Ethics of Aristotle
7
"There spoke the self-loving Englishman," cried Le Gallais, whom respect for his seniors had hitherto kept silent.
St. George's Cross; Or, England Above All
Frequent collocations
Self-loving through the time