Definition of Self-contemplation

1. Noun. The contemplation of your own thoughts and desires and conduct.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Self-contemplation

self-condemnation
self-confessed
self-confessed(a)
self-confidence
self-confident
self-confidently
self-congratulate
self-congratulation
self-congratulatory
self-conjugate
self-conscious
self-consciously
self-consciousness
self-consistent
self-contained
self-contemplation (current term)
self-contempt
self-contradiction
self-contradictory
self-control
self-controlled
self-critical
self-criticism
self-cultivation
self-curing resin
self-deal
self-dealing
self-deceit
self-deception
self-deceptions

Literary usage of Self-contemplation

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Journal of Speculative Philosophy: Ed. by Wm. T. Harris edited by William Torrey Harris (1872)
"Hence it follows that the actual existence of an Ego is grounded upon an absolute fact of immediate self-contemplation, namely, the self-contemplation of ..."

2. Parochial Sermons by John Henry Newman (1836)
"self-contemplation. HEBREWS xii. 2. Looking unto Jesus, the Author and Finisher of our faith. SURELY it is our duty ever to look off ourselves, ..."

3. Memoirs of Baron Stockmar by Ernst Alfred Christian von Stockmar (1873)
"... reflections and self-contemplation—Review of his past life — His charity—Death—The Monument erected to him by his royal friends—The result of his ..."

4. Writings of Rev. William Bradford Homer: Late Pastor of the Congregational by William Bradford Homer, Edwards Amasa Park (1849)
"HABITS OF self-contemplation. There is so little of outward adventure in the life of a student, that he forms the habit of turning his eye inward. ..."

5. Writings of Rev. William Bradford Homer: Late Pastor of the Congregational by William Bradford Homer, Edwards Amasa Park (1842)
"HABITS OF self-contemplation. There is so little of outward adventure in the life of a student, that he forms the habit of turning his eye inward. ..."

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