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Definition of Self-regard
1. Noun. The quality of being worthy of esteem or respect. "Showed his true dignity when under pressure"
Generic synonyms: Pride, Pridefulness
Derivative terms: Dignify
Lexicographical Neighbors of Self-regard
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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