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Self-praise   /sɛlf-preɪz/   Listen
Self-praise

noun
1.
Speaking of yourself in superlatives.  Synonyms: boast, boasting, jactitation.





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"Self-praise" Quotes from Famous Books



... coupled with a long defence of themselves upon matters outside the present inquiry and not even the subject of accusation, and with praise of what no one finds fault with. However, since they have done so, we must answer their charges and refute their self-praise, in order that neither our bad name nor their good may help them, but that you may hear the real truth on both points, and ...
— The History of the Peloponnesian War • Thucydides
 
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... and disobedient?" she asked, or rather whispered roguishly; "you look so shocked and amazed. Please, don't judge by first impressions; my bark is worse than my bite, and I can be a very good girl when I choose. Self-praise is no honour, of course, and I ought to be silent with regard to my various perfections and imperfections; but if you wait patiently you will find out that Winnifred Blake is a most eccentric character, and says and does what no other ...
— Aunt Judith - The Story of a Loving Life • Grace Beaumont
 
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... immured in all unseemly things, will she patiently watch her time for some appropriate touch, or some quiet sound of her voice. Her most difficult scene of action, however, is in the bosom of pretension; for there the trumpet of self-praise is ever sounding to overwhelm her voice, and she is kept at arm's-length from the touch of the guilty hearts, by the padding and the furniture that surround them. But oh! the hypocrites of this life—they almost make one weary of it; they who walk with ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 • Various
 
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Words linked to "Self-praise" :   braggadocio, line-shooting, brag, vaporing, rodomontade, speech act, bluster, crowing, crow, self-assertion, rhodomontade, vaunt, gasconade, bragging



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