SELF-RESPECT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does self-respect mean? 

• SELF-RESPECT (noun)
  The noun SELF-RESPECT has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being worthy of esteem or respect

  Familiarity information: SELF-RESPECT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SELF-RESPECT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being worthy of esteem or respect

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

dignity; self-regard; self-respect; self-worth

Context example:

showed his true dignity when under pressure

Hypernyms ("self-respect" is a kind of...):

pride; pridefulness (a feeling of self-respect and personal worth)

 Context examples 

I had no solace from self-approbation: none even from self-respect.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

My dear Copperfield, said Mr. Micawber, behind his handkerchief, this is an occupation, of all others, requiring an untroubled mind, and self-respect.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Other people besides you have self-respect, and even reputations.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect,” he continued, disregarding my remonstrance.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As it is, every storiette, every word of every storiette, was a violation of myself, of my self-respect, of my respect for beauty.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queens on thrones, without self-respect and peace.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The glory of heroism, of usefulness, of exertion, of endurance, made his own habits of selfish indulgence appear in shameful contrast; and he wished he had been a William Price, distinguishing himself and working his way to fortune and consequence with so much self-respect and happy ardour, instead of what he was!

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

For this reason, I retained my modesty in very self-respect; and the more praise I got, the more I tried to deserve.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He had, as you saw, the best of the first exchanges, but my self-respect and my reputation are concerned to fight it to a finish.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was my nature to feel pleasure in yielding to an authority supported like hers, and to bend, where my conscience and self-respect permitted, to an active will.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)