Meaning of self-view | Babel Free

Definitions

1. One's conceptualization of oneself; sense of identity; self-image.
   countable, uncountable
2. Carefulness or regard for one's own interests.
   countable, dated, uncountable

Examples

“Modesty, then denotes a moderate self-view—seeing oneself as intermediate, rather than as very positive or very negative, on key personal attributes such as personality traits, abilities and skills, physical appearance, and social behavior. A moderate self-view may be entertained privately or expressed publicly.”

“From this vantage point⟳, it was the personality flaw, rather than the negative self-view, that caused people with negative self-views to embrace negative evaluations and evaluators.”

“That is, if people are highly certain of their self-view when they reach⟳ Phase 2, they will be inclined to compare⟳ the feedback with their own⟳ self-conceptualization if the necessary cognitive resources are available.”

“Once an individual establishes a well-articulated self-schema in a particular domain, he generally acts to preserve⟳ that self-view.”

“But mark⟳ the punishment which did ensue Upon those ill-misleading villanies; They blinded were themselves with their self view⟳, and fell into their own-made miseries;”

“nor can I say⟳ thet either of them loved without some Self-view. Amelia plainly saw⟳ into the Falseness of their Tempers, look'd upon it as a Misfortune to be married into such a Family, and only made this Use⟳ of it, to avoid⟳ the Crime in herself .”

“God who knows the Heart, sees that I have⟳ no Self-view in these matters.”

“But they who turn⟳ to themselves and to the world, are capable of receiving no instreaming from the Lord or from heaven, thus, not of being in any state of being enlightened and in a perception of what is true; for the world, from a self-view, glides in, and quite quenches, or drives back, or perverts whatever comes from heaven.”

“Every one has his pet egoistic illusion always under the spotlight of self-view; to him, his own⟳ importance is a veritable obsession.”

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