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self-satisˈfaction
[formed after next.]
The condition or quality of being self-satisfied.
1739Hume Treat. Hum. Nature II. i. 32 We are not much satisfy'd with the thing itself; and are still less apt to feel any new degrees of self-satisfaction upon its account. 1793Beddoes Math. Evid. 117 We differ from one another in every circumstance of conduct, taste, and sentiment with perfect self-satisfaction. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair xxviii, Following his chief, who rode away in great state and self-satisfaction. 1885Pattison Mem. 254, I have never enjoyed any self-satisfaction in anything I have ever done. |
