Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Self-esteem.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of estimating one's self; self-esteem.
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Examples
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I respect your choice and do not infer that your beloved one just wants some boost in personal self-estimation at your expense ...
The Writer to Her Lawyer in Siberia Ann Bogle 2011
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Modern Jews are under no compulsion to endorse everything said in the Tanakh, but I fail to see how ascribing a self-estimation as “special” to the Jews can remotely be described as “anti-Semitic.”
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Modern Jews are under no compulsion to endorse everything said in the Tanakh, but I fail to see how ascribing a self-estimation as “special” to the Jews can remotely be described as “anti-Semitic.”
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The result of self-estimation is directly related to the actualy knowledge, but with the willingness to learn about a particular subject, which does directly relate with the knowledge of the subject, as people usually climb the learning curve faster than others.
Miriam Ruiz 2008
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Thus, There is an indirect relation between self-estimation and actualy knowledge.
Miriam Ruiz 2008
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Marinas father, an aging liberal journalist of lofty reputation and even higher self-estimation.
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Its record is written not in its self-estimation, but in the markets' remarkably low inflation expectations.
Fed Power Tied To Policy Credibility Oxford Analytica 2006
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Earthly-mindedness, pride of spirit, elation above our brethren, self-estimation, carnal confidence, contempt of the wisdom and grace of others, aptness to wrath and anger, -- some or all of these always accompany such a frame.
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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In all these instances there is a feeling of pure satisfaction and delight; -- a feeling of self-estimation, which is at once the guardian and the reward of virtue.
A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education James Gall
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Again, he who values himself highly without just grounds is a Vain man: though the name must not be applied to every case of unduly high self-estimation.
Ethics 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle
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