self-respect

self-respect

English

Etymology

self- +‎ respect

Noun

self-respect (uncountable)

1. The knowledge of one's own worth, valuing one's self; pride.
   • 1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter XXIV, in Mansfield Park: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] T[homas] Egerton, […], OCLC 39810224:

     […] he wished he had been a William Price, distinguishing himself and working his way to fortune and consequence with so much self-respect and happy ardour, instead of what he was!

   • 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, OCLC 223202227:

     In the little chaos of Pearl's character there might be seen emerging […] an uncontrollable will—sturdy pride, which might be disciplined into self-respect—and a bitter scorn of many things which, when examined, might be found to have the taint of falsehood in them.

   • 1915, Virginia Woolf, chapter XIX, in The Voyage Out‎:

     Would any woman have behaved like that—if a man had said he didn’t want her? We’ve too much self-respect; we’re infinitely finer than they are.

   • 1965, Herbert, Frank, Dune‎ (Science Fiction), New York: Ace Books, OCLC 15383013, page 112‎:

     “To hold Arrakis,” the Duke said, “one is faced with decisions that may cost one his self-respect.” He pointed out the window to the Atreides green and black banner hanging limply from a staff at the edge of the landing field. "That honorable banner could come to mean many evil things."

Translations

knowledge of one's own worth

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Armenian: ինքնասիրություն (hy) (inkʿnasirutʿyun), արժանապատվություն (hy) (aržanapatvutʿyun), թասիբ (hy) (tʿasib) Bulgarian: самоуваже́ние (bg) n (samouvažénie) Catalan: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Mandarin: 自尊 (zh) (zìzūn), 自尊心 (zh) (zìzūnxīn) Min Nan: chì-khì, chū-chun Czech: sebeúcta (cs) f Danish: selvrespekt c Dutch: zelfrespect (nl) n Esperanto: memrespekto Estonian: please add this translation if you can Finnish: itsekunnioitus (fi) French: respect de soi m, dignité personnelle f German: Selbstachtung (de) f Greek: αυτοσεβασμός (el) m (aftosevasmós) Ido: please add this translation if you can Irish: féinmheas m Italian: autostima (it) f Japanese: 自尊 (ja) (じそん, jison), 自尊心 (ja) (じそんしん, jisonshin) Khmer: ការគោរពរាប់អានខ្លួនឯង (kaa kourup roap aan kluən ae ngɔɔ) Korean: 자존심 (ko) (jajonsim) Lao: please add this translation if you can Latvian: pašcieņa f Lithuanian: savigarba f Luxembourgish: please add this translation if you can Manx: arrym er hene m Maori: kiritau Navajo: ádiłjídlį́, ádił ídlį́ Occitan: please add this translation if you can Persian: please add this translation if you can Polish: poczucie własnej wartości n, szacunek dla samego siebie m Portuguese: orgulho (pt) m, vergonha na cara f Romanian: respect de sine n Russian: чу́вство со́бственного досто́инства (ru) n (čúvstvo sóbstvennovo dostóinstva), самоуваже́ние (ru) n (samouvažénije) Scottish Gaelic: fèin-urram m Serbo-Croatian: samopoštovanje (sh) Spanish: autorrespeto m Swedish: självaktning (sv) c Vietnamese: lòng tự trọng Volapük: please add this translation if you can

See also

• dignity
• self-esteem
• self-worth