Meanings of self-worship in English

Carlyle speaks of dandyism as a survival of 'the primeval superstition, self-worship.'

A cult of State and of self-worship are involved in it.

You are a scathe and a blight; a pestilential ogre, drunk with self-worship.

Their self-worship has prevented them from making the necessary transformative digital switch, Thomson alleged.

The vainness of self-worship, and the waste of life.

It endangered the absoluteness of her self-belief and self-worship.

Thus they have successfully achieved the introduction into Germany of that most degraded form of self-worship-Chauvinism

There again spoke the very enthusiasm of self-worship!

His short life was lived at the poles of self-hatred and self-worship with no saner resting place in between.

Your vanity, your self-worship!

Secrecy and ugliness; greed, fear, and callousness; meanness, avarice, cunning, deceit, and self-worship were as close around as the nearest farmhouses.

I am beginning to doubt whether my belief on the matter has not been the product of insular ignorance, and idolatrous self-worship.

Did my surprise arise from the insular ignorance and idolatrous self-worship of a Britisher, or was my American friend labouring under a delusion?

Eyes blinded by self-worship, an inpenetrable hide, these things, too, have their uses in time-verypractical uses, which it would be silly to ignore.

He was too much absorbed by his "self-study, self-wonder, and self-worship," as one of his critics styles his egotism, to be clear-sighted.

Surely for this may well give way all our paltry self-consciousnesses, our self-admirations and self-worships!