Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Self-measurement; self-estimation.
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Examples
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-- Here lies the truth; he who best understands himself is least likely to be deceived in others; you judge of others by yourselves, and therefore measure them by an erroneous standard whenever your autometry is false.
Sir Thomas More, or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society Robert Southey 1808
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