self-esteeming

Erect, inflated, and fully self-esteeming be the chant; and then America will listen with pleased ears.

Democratic Vistas: Paras. 90–119. Collect 1892

Instruction sounds to the proud man like reproof; illumination comes on the vain man like scorn; the manifestation of a higher condition of motive and action than his own, falls on the self-esteeming like condemnation; but it is consciousness and conscience working together that produce this impression; the result is from the man himself, not from the higher source.

The Seaboard Parish, Complete George MacDonald 1864

Instruction sounds to the proud man like reproof; illumination comes on the vain man like scorn; the manifestation of a higher condition of motive and action than his own, falls on the self-esteeming like condemnation; but it is consciousness and conscience working together that produce this impression; the result is from the man himself, not from the higher source.

The Seaboard Parish Volume 1 George MacDonald 1864

Every one was cold, distant, correct, and self-esteeming; so perfectly contented with themselves and the routine, that he felt all his ardour thrown away, and it seemed to him that he was pastor to a steam-engine -- a mere item in the proprieties of Ormersfield.

Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 2 Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

Erect, inflated, and fully self-esteeming be the chant; and then America will listen with pleased ears.

Collect ; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose 1855

Erect, inflated, and fully self-esteeming be the chant; and then America will listen with pleased ears.

Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy Walt Whitman 1855

There are hundreds and thousands of humble and unassuming persons like him, far superior in the high moral qualities of mind to the mass of self-esteeming exclusives, who think the very air around them tainted by their breath.

Heart-Histories and Life-Pictures 1847

Fed a steady diet of self-affirming, self-esteeming, "I'm okay, you're okay" pop-psychology, the man of today has rejected the perceived limitations and strictures of culture in favor of radical individualism.

ChronWatch - Articles Ken Connor 2010

However, Courmayer is also respected by dashing people, Dons Carleone of the snow kind for proximity of Shamoni to its White Valley (a random descent from the glacier Egui du Midi which should be conquered by each self-esteeming skier, especially a snowboarder, at least once in his life).

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