self-laudation

But, he said, the newspaper "in its self-laudation could hardly give credit to anyone outside of its staff."

Russ Baker: The Ponzi-Pulitzer Scheme 2009

Socrates did, it is true, by his self-laudation draw down upon him the jealousy of the court and caused his judges all the more to record their votes against him.

The Apology of Socrates 2007

‘To protect myself against the suspicion of covert self-laudation, my dear Mrs Boffin,’ said the airy Mrs Lammle therefore, ‘I must tell you how it was.’

Our Mutual Friend 2004

She is where I meant her to be, and where no charge of self-laudation can touch her.

The Life of Charlotte Bronte 2002

One should be fearless; one should refrain from self-laudation.

The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

This kind of self-laudation benefits the hearer, and changes his opinion.

Plutarch's Morals 46-120? Plutarch

But I think we may say, without self-laudation, that British composition is now worth some considerable attention from ourselves and others; it was, not unnaturally, wellnigh forgotten during its sleep from the death of Purcell till the rise of Parry -- a fairly sound sleep, during which it occasionally half-opened its eyes for a moment or two -- but it is wide awake now.

Recent Developments in European Thought Various

Moreover that kind of conversation that mainly consists of censuring and running down others is dangerous as giving opportunity for self-laudation to those who pine for fame.

Plutarch's Morals 46-120? Plutarch

With all our virulent abuse of slavery and slave-owners, and our continual self-laudation on that subject, we are just as anxious for, and as much interested in, the prosperity of the slavery interest in the Southern

Great Britain and the American Civil War Ephraim Douglass Adams

Wordsworth, he was one of the most egotistical of men; he had no greater admirer than Robert Southey; and had his exertions not been equal to his self-laudation, he would have been intolerable.

English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee