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SELF-RESPECT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being worthy of esteem or respect
Example:
showed his true dignity when under pressure
Synonyms:
dignity; self-regard; self-respect; self-worth
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("self-respect" is a kind of...):
pride; pridefulness (a feeling of self-respect and personal worth)
Context examples:
But it was not that which hurt so much as what she took to be his lack of pride and self-respect.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
On the other hand, he has endeavoured to conceal some of these stains upon the felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not entirely lost his self-respect.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Turning over, as we are about to turn over, an entirely new leaf; and falling back, as we are now in the act of falling back, for a Spring of no common magnitude; it is important to my sense of self-respect, besides being an example to my son, that these arrangements should be concluded as between man and man.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I see no enemy to a fortunate issue but in the brow; and that brow professes to say,—'I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Let me hear it. Mrs. Fairfax has said something, perhaps? or you have overheard the servants talk? —your sensitive self-respect has been wounded?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Jane, I approached the verge of despair; a remnant of self-respect was all that intervened between me and the gulf.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Many showed themselves obliging, and amiable too; and I discovered amongst them not a few examples of natural politeness, and innate self-respect, as well as of excellent capacity, that won both my goodwill and my admiration.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
If you think so, you must have a strange opinion of me; you must regard me as a plotting profligate—a base and low rake who has been simulating disinterested love in order to draw you into a snare deliberately laid, and strip you of honour and rob you of self-respect.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
