Definition of Self-regard

1. Noun. The quality of being worthy of esteem or respect. "Showed his true dignity when under pressure"

Exact synonyms: Dignity, Self-respect, Self-worth
Generic synonyms: Pride, Pridefulness
Derivative terms: Dignify

Lexicographical Neighbors of Self-regard

self-propelled vehicle
self-propelling
self-protection
self-publishing
self-punishment
self-raising
self-raising flour
self-realisation
self-realization
self-redress
self-reference
self-referent
self-referential
self-referential meaning
self-reformation
self-regard (current term)
self-regarding
self-regenerating
self-registering thermometer
self-regulating
self-regulation
self-regulatory
self-reliance
self-reliant
self-renunciation
self-repelling
self-replicating
self-report inventory
self-report personality inventory
self-reproach

Literary usage of Self-regard

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

1. Moral Evolution by George Harris (1896)
"CHAPTER VI SELF-REALIZATION AND ALTRUISM IT has already been intimated more than once that morality is self-regard as well as regard for others. ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"... or at least is necessary only as a substitute for enlightened self-regard; since if the harmony between prudence and virtue, self-regard ing and social ..."

3. Individualism: Four Lectures on the Significance of Consciousness for Social by Warner Fite (1911)
"Whether you say "selfishness" or use the nicer term "self-regard" is a matter of no consequence. Only, please be careful not to omit or to ignore the ..."

4. The Works of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1843)
"But, in self-regard even sympathy has its root : and if, in the general tenor of human conduct, self-regard were not prevalent over sympathy,—even over ..."

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