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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