self-righteousness
self-righteousness noun: confidence in one's own righteousness, self-assurance, smugness.
Noun
self-righteousness
- Confidence in one's own righteousness, self-assurance, smugness.
- The book of Job warns us against self-righteousness, since no man can justify himself to God.
- The heroines of these plays speak out against intraracial biases, stereotyping, lynchmobs, illiteracy, poverty, promiscuity, self-righteousness, verbally abusive men, rape, and miscegenation. […] Without warning the doctor, she chokes the life out of her child in order to keep him safe from white...1990, Elizabeth Brown-Guillory, “Preface”, in Wines in the Wilderness: Plays by African American Women from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present, New York, N.Y.: Praeger Publishers, →ISBN, page xiv
self-righteousness meaning in Tamil
self-righteousness in Tamil
- தன்னேர்மையுணர்வு, தன்னொழுக்கமுனைப்புணர்வு, ஒழுக்க வீறாப்பு
Origin of self-righteousness
From self-righteous + -ness or self- + righteousness.
Questions about self-righteousness
- What does self-righteousness mean?
- Self-righteousness means confidence in one's own righteousness, self-assurance, smugness.
- What is self-righteousness in Tamil?
- Self-righteousness in Tamil is தன்னேர்மையுணர்வு, தன்னொழுக்கமுனைப்புணர்வு, ஒழுக்க வீறாப்பு. See Self-righteousness meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is self-righteousness?
- Self-righteousness is a noun.
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