amour-propre

[ a-moor-praw-pruh ]
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Origin of amour-propre

1
First recorded in 1775–85; literally, “self-love”

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How to use amour-propre in a sentence

  • It is quite what I expected of him,what man of his type could find pardon for a blow to his own amour propre!

    The Sorrows of Satan | Marie Corelli
  • But impersonality has prevented the Far Oriental from having much amour propre.

    The Soul of the Far East | Percival Lowell
  • It hurt not only his acquired republican feelings, but what lies far deeper than those, his amour propre.

  • Here was little of the amour propre of Baltimore and Philadelphia.

    The Soul of John Brown | Stephen Graham
  • The love of country is something a little more than mere amour propre.

    Res Judicat | Augustine Birrell

British Dictionary definitions for amour-propre

amour-propre

/ French (amurprɔprə) /


noun
  1. self-respect

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