Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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a. Indicating that a claim or statement of status was made by the person who benefits from the announcement.
Wikipedia
Self proclaimed — or, in French, soi-disant — describes a legal title that is only recognized by the declaring person and not any recognized legal authority. It can be the status of a noble title or the status of a nation. It is used informally for anyone declaring themselves to any informal title.
Usage examples of "self-proclaimed".
It was impossible to be involved in lesbian issues and not come into contact with some self-proclaimed priestess, a political witch or two, or even the more grounded but at the same time hazier currents of rebellion against patriarchal Christianity embodied by Women-Church.
Snowstar really believes that, or the self-proclaimed nondiplomat Snowstar just made a shrewd play in our support.
The boulevardiers were out for a stroll, reveling in the last fine weather of autumn—leisured gentlemen in well-tailored blazers, men of letters, self-proclaimed wits andartistes.
The boulevardiers were out for a stroll, reveling in the last fine weather of autumn—leisured gentlemen in well-tailored blazers, men of letters, self-proclaimed wits and artistes.
The boulevardiers were out for a stroll, reveling in the last fine weather of autumnleisured gentlemen in well-tailored blazers, men of letters, self-proclaimed wits and artistes.
Earlier in the story Miss Pross' self-proclaimed Britishness has comic overtones.
Yana challenged, inserting herself between the injured Sean and the self-proclaimed Shepherd.
Where cowers the self-proclaimed, oft-proclaimed, 'Savior of Morguhn,' eh?
As the dropship ascended, the newly self-proclaimed liberator of Remus set a course for a rendezvous with a Romulan senator who had a promise to keep.
This was Bream Field, the self-proclaimed helicopter capital of the world.
We sure weren't looking for some self-proclaimed werewolf with a genetic disorder, not back then we weren't.
It was a panel discussion by self-proclaimed experts on the global warming that was causing such storms and flooding.
It meant that any space-faring ships that went into self-proclaimed Ba-am-as territory had to be warships, and had to have a lot of maneuverability.
The balance of the time he is an outsider, a self-proclaimed loner, unaccepting of his role as a member of our little company.
His eyes were strangely shadowed, reflecting an undisguisable evil in the man who had gained the complete confidence of the new, self-proclaimed King.