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The love of one's self; desire of personal happiness; tendency to seek one's own benefit or advantage. Shak. Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul. Pope.

one's self. Self-made man, a man who has risen from poverty or obscurity by means of his own talentss or energies.

Inborn mettle or courage; one's own temper. [Obs.] Shak.

A neglecting of one's self, or of one's own interests. Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin As self-neglecting. Shak.

especially high opinion, of one's self; an overweening estimate of one's self or of one's own opinion. Collier.

That partiality to himself by which a man overrates his own worth when compared with others. Kames.

Perplexed by doubts originating in one's own mind.

Registering itself; -- said of any instrument so contrived as to record its own indications of phenomena, whether continuously or at stated times, as at the maxima and minima of variations; as, a self-registering anemometer or barometer.

Reliance on one's own powers or judgment; self-trust.

Reliant upon one's self; trusting to one's own powers or judgment.

The act of renouncing, or setting aside, one's own wishes, claims, etc.; self-sacrifice.

The act of reproaching one's self; censure by one's own conscience.

Reproached by one's own conscience or judgment.

The act of reproving one's self; censure of one's conduct by one's own judgment.

Reproved by one's own conscience or one's own sense of guilt.

Restrained by one's self or itself; restrained by one's own power or will.

Righteous in one's own esteem; pharisaic.

Yielding up one's own interest, ffeelings, etc; sacrificing one's self.

One who seeks only his own interest, advantage, or pleasure.

Seeking one's own interest or happiness; selfish. Arbuthnot.