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

To move to action; to actuate; to animate. [Obs.] Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul. Pope.

Self-love; self-esteem.

ied to things which resemble those which are genuine, but are really not so. That bastard self-love which is so vicious in itself, and productive of so many vices. Barrow.

To treat with praise or blandishments; to gratify or attempt to gratify the self-love or vanity of, esp. by artful and interested commendation or attentions; to blandish; to cajole; to wheedle. When I tell him he hates flatterers, He says he does, being then most flattered. Shak. A man that flattereth his neighbor, spr…

e learned and sophistical are incomparably more so. I. Taylor. Such is the infatuation of self-love. Blair.

Self-love; selfishness. [Obs.] Beaumont.

Self-love. [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.

state of being selfish; exclusive regard to one's own interest or happiness; that supreme self-love or self- preference which leads a person to direct his purposes to the advancement of his own interest, power, or happiness, without regarding those of others. Selfishness,- a vice utterly at variance with the happiness…

Concentration of one's interests on one's self; self-love; selfishness. Emerson.