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amour propre

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amour propre (formal)

the good feelings and respect you have for yourself. The critics' negative reaction to his first novel wounded his amour propre.

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I, for instance, have a great deal of amour propre. Notes from the Underground by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context More results

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