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Definition of Self-loving
1. Adjective. Characteristic of those having an inflated idea of their own importance.
Similar to: Selfish
Derivative terms: Egotism, Egotist, Narcissism
Lexicographical Neighbors of Self-loving
Literary usage of Self-loving
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle, Frank Hesketh Peters (1886)
"It is with justice, then, that we reproach those who are self- loving in this sense.
That it really is to those who take more than their due of these things ..."
2. The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle (1891)
"And yet such a man would seem to be more truly self-loving. ... He therefore who
loves and gratifies this part of himself is most truly self-loving. ..."
3. Systematic Theology: A Compendium and Commonplace-book Designed for the Use by Augustus Hopkins Strong (1907)
"From this self-loving and self-affirming purity, love properly so-called, or the
self-communicating attribute, is to be carefully distinguished ( see voL 1, ..."
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