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Southern cleric, misfit, altered reflective judgement?
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self-criticism
Word definitions for self-criticism in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1780, from self- + criticism . First attested in George Eliot; communist party sense is attested from 1933.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Criticism of oneself
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But it is his streak of self-criticism that should ensure that those gifts come to the fore. ▪ Her self-criticism of the paternalistic atmosphere which she allowed to engulf her in her early insecurity is devastating. ▪ In a ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Self-criticism involves how an individual evaluates his or her self. Self-criticism is typically studied and discussed as a negative personality trait in which a person has a disrupted self identity. The opposite of self-criticism would be someone who has ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. criticism of yourself
Usage examples of self-criticism.
The frankness of such a secretly outspoken thought could not go without some derisive self-criticism.
The purpose of self-criticism, Misha said, was to help each Komsomol and Young Pioneer to perfect himself, to see his own defects and to rid himself of them as quickly as possible.
Some may consider this an overbroad characterization, but to me every time we exercise self-criticism, every time we test our ideas against the outside world, we are doing science.
The tennis player does better when he/she gives up self-criticism and awfulizing (Gallwey, 1974).
It sits there admiring itself, without a scintilla of self-criticism, unable to look at hard troths along that highway.