Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Self-respecting.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having or showing self-esteem
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Examples
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It will cut into his margin probably, but he will be afloat doing business and at the same time will be self-respectful since he as a rich man do not take subsidy from the poor people of the country.
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The notion of improving the condition of the poor had not yet dawned on the mind of the governing class; to make the artizan and the operative self-supporting and self-respectful was a movement not merely unformulated, but a conception beyond the parturient faculty of a member of the Jacquerie.
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No waffling here about fulfilling dreams, but a really self-respectful awareness of what drew her enthusiasms and the problems she was going to have to face.
Temple Address: "Becoming Trustworthy: Respect and Self-Respect" Church House 2005
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Yet through all the long and dreary struggle, often diseased in mind as well as in body, he had been resolutely self-dependent, and proudly self-respectful; he had fulfilled his college vow, he had
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The boy was back wonderfully soon to say the cab would come for us in ten minutes, and to receive with self-respectful appreciation the peseta which rewarded his promptness.
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There are no better friends in the world -- no men who understand each other better -- none who meet and converse more freely at their ease -- none who have more respect for each other -- than a genuine gentleman and a self-respectful humble man, who knows his place in the social scale, and is abundantly satisfied with it.
Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays Timothy Titcomb
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A thoroughly self-respectful person will command respect anywhere.
Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays Timothy Titcomb
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The people who are entirely self-respectful never have any thing to say about their position in the presence of their children; and it is a cruel thing to teach a child, not that there is a grade of society which is actually above him, but that the persons who occupy that grade look down upon him -- and, in the constitution of society, have the right to look down upon him -- with contempt.
Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays Timothy Titcomb
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Now by the side of the person who carries an unsuspicious, self-respectful, open face, into any presence, such people as these seem unworthy of the race to which they belong.
Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays Timothy Titcomb
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I know of men and women who are the favorites of a whole neighborhood -- nay, a whole town -- because they are cheerful, and courageous, and self-respectful under misfortune; and I know of those who are as much dreaded as
Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays Timothy Titcomb
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