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Definition of Soi-disant
1. Adjective. As claimed by and for yourself often without justification. "The self-styled `doctor' has no degree of any kind"
Definition of Soi-disant
1. Adjective. Self-styled; self-proclaiming; self-proclaimed. ¹
2. Adverb. supposedly ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Soi-disant
Literary usage of Soi-disant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Literary World by Samuel R. Crocker, Edward Abbott, Nicholas Paine Gilman, Madeline Vaughan Abbott Bushnell, Bliss Carman, Herbert Copeland (1886)
"FOR a soi-disant Buddhist and a life-long professional adorer of India, Mr. Ar.
nold shows unexpected but welcome self- restraint in these amiable ..."
2. Cawnpore by George Otto Trevelyan (1866)
"... the aspect of help, nor the renewal of confidence, nor the welcome sight of
light faces, nor the welcome sound of approaching artillery. The soi-disant ..."
3. The Making of Humanity by Robert Briffault (1919)
"CHAPTER VII THE soi-disant RENAISSANCE IT is in the first three centuries of the?
present millennium that the rebirth of Europe took place. ..."
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