self-loving

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self-loving

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From self- + loving.

adjective more self-loving · most self-loving

Exhibiting or exemplary of self-love. That is a very pleasant line, the one that we have italicized; […] Why did he [Ben Jonson] not write more such? He might answer that he did, and that his poetry was full of enjoyment. But it is not; at least not in the entirely happy, familiar, unmisgiving, self-referential, and yet not self-loving

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@misc{self_loving_2026,
  title = {self-loving},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/self-loving},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}