Word Meanings - SELF-ESTEEM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The holding a good opinion of one's self; self-complacency.

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• HOLD
  The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed.
• OPINIONATOR
  An opinionated person; one given to conjecture. South.
• HOLDBACK
  1. Check; hindrance; restraint; obstacle. The only holdback is the affection . . . that we bear to our wealth. Hammond. 2. The projection or loop on the thill of a vehicle. to which a strap of the harness is attached, to hold back a carriage when
• OPINIONATE
  Opinionated.
• HOLDER-FORTH
  One who speaks in public; an haranguer; a preacher. Addison.
• HOLDER
  One who is employed in the hold of a vessel.
• OPINIONIST
  One fond of his own notions, or unduly attached to his own opinions. Glanvill.
• OPINIONABLE
  Being, or capable of being, a matter of opinion; that can be thought; not positively settled; as, an opinionable doctrine. C. J. Ellicott.
• OPINIONATED
  Stiff in opinion; firmly or unduly adhering to one's own opinion or to preconceived notions; obstinate in opinion. Sir W. Scott.
• OPINIONATIST
  An opinionist.
• HOLDING
  1. The act or state of sustaining, grasping, or retaining. 2. A tenure; a farm or other estate held of another. 3. That which holds, binds, or influences. Burke. 4. The burden or chorus of a song. Shak. Holding note , a note sustained in one
• OPINION
  The formal decision, or expression of views, of a judge, an umpire, a counselor, or other party officially called upon to consider and decide upon a matter or point submitted. To be of opinion, to think; to judge. -- To hold opinion with, to agree
• OPINIONED
  Opinionated; conceited. His opinioned zeal which he thought judicious. Milton.
• OPINIONATELY
  Conceitedly. Feltham.
• OPINIONATIVE
  1. Unduly attached to one's own opinions; opinionated. Milton. 2. Of the nature of an opinion; conjectured. "Things both opinionative and practical." Bunyan. -- O*pin"ion*a*tive*ly, adv. -- O*pin"ion*a*tive*ness, n.
• HOLDFAST
  A conical or branching body, by which a seaweed is attached to its support, and differing from a root in that it is not specially absorbent of moisture. (more info) 1. Something used to secure and hold in place something else, as a long fiat-headed
• INHOLD
  To have inherent; to contain in itself; to possess. Sir W. Raleigh.
• COPYHOLDER
  One possessed of land in copyhold. A device for holding copy for a compositor. One who reads copy to a proof reader.
• HIGH-HOLDER
  The flicker; -- called also high-hole.
• BLANCH HOLDING
  A mode of tenure by the payment of a small duty in white rent or otherwise.
• BEHOLDER
  One who beholds; a spectator.
• OFFICEHOLDER
  An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.
• CANDLEHOLDER
  One who, or that which, holds a candle; also, one who assists another, but is otherwise not of importance. Shak.
• FOREHOLDING
  Ominous foreboding; superstitious prognostication. L'Estrange.
• BOOKHOLDER
  1. A prompter at a theater. Beau & Fl. 2. A support for a book, holding it open, while one reads or copies from it.
• FOOTHOLD
  A holding with the feet; firm L'Estrange.
• BEHOLDING
  Obliged; beholden. I was much bound and beholding to the right reverend father. Robynson So much hath Oxford been beholding to her nephews, or sister's children. Fuller.
• COMPLACENCE; COMPLACENCY
  1. Calm contentment; satisfaction; gratification. The inward complacence we find in acting reasonably and virtuously. Atterbury. Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacency, if they discover none of the like
• STRANGLE HOLD
  In wrestling, a hold by which one's opponent is choked. It is usually not allowed.
• BEHOLDINGNESS
  , The state of being obliged or beholden. Sir P. Sidney.
• BONDHOLDER
  A person who holds the bonds of a public or private corporation for the payment of money at a certain time.