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self-regard en · NOUN

Etymology

From self- + regard.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) regard for or consideration of oneself or one's own interests
   • It expresses the influence exercised by the self-regard of one man upon the self-regard of another. It arises from the right to pursue a man's own interest, subject only to the limitation of not obstructing his neighbor's corresponding right. 1864, William Edward Hearn, Plutology: Or, The Theory of the Efforts to Satisfy Human Wants, MacMillan and Co., page 334:

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