SELF-RESPECTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does self-respecting mean? 

• SELF-RESPECTING (adjective)
  The adjective SELF-RESPECTING has 1 sense:

1. having or showing self-esteem

  Familiarity information: SELF-RESPECTING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SELF-RESPECTING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having or showing self-esteem

Synonyms:

dignified; self-respectful; self-respecting

Similar:

proud (feeling self-respect or pleasure in something by which you measure your self-worth; or being a reason for pride)

 Context examples 

He is not of your order: keep to your caste, and be too self-respecting to lavish the love of the whole heart, soul, and strength, where such a gift is not wanted and would be despised.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

And that is saying a great deal; for after all, the British peasantry are the best taught, best mannered, most self-respecting of any in Europe: since those days I have seen paysannes and Bauerinnen; and the best of them seemed to me ignorant, coarse, and besotted, compared with my Morton girls.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)