Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Self-regard, self-esteem.
GNU Webster's 1913
- Self-love; self-esteem.
WordNet 3.0
- n. feelings of excessive pride
Etymologies
- From French amour-propre. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“But once he had done that, he listed other virtues with which interest, though never predominating (or they would not be virtues at all), is almost always concomitant — e.g., policy with gratitude and fidelity, amour propre with honor.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘amour propre’.
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probablyankita's list
Words are all I have to take your heart away
apartheid, techno-klutz, logorrheic, gordian knot, anodyne, odor of sanctity, finders keepers, foot-in-mouth dis..., dutch uncle, masquerade, smoke signals, furtive glance and 320 more...
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Iaan
dirigisme, dystopia, cacotopia, ex ante, veritable, indefatigable, curmudgeon, desultory, antediluvian, transmogrify, pendent, elongate and 269 more...
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Jesse's random
bathos, dragoman, tessellated, escutcheon, eikon, mondaine, basilisk, ciborium, rubric, machicolation, jet, defalcation and 198 more...
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briwref's list
defalcation, macerate, beldam, nescience, ochlocracy, bibelot, estivate, spatulated, introversive, mastoidal, belletristic, objurgation and 108 more...
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permanent foreign residents in English
Foreign words and phrases that are perfectly acceptable to use in formal English writing, but still maintain the aura of foreignness. They do not enjoy full citizenship, but remain "alien residents...
prima facie, a priori, a posteriori, avant la lettre, corpus delicti, l'esprit de l'esc..., sans-culotte, memento mori, gesamtkunstwerk, amour propre, guru, deja vu and 25 more...
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Phrases
under the weather, hors de combat, at loggerheads, running the gauntlet, on the same page, on cloud nine, nota bene, castle in the air, carpe diem, space cadet, amour propre
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ADW2
nudnik, temper, intercalate, cleave, scowl, chapfallen, malapropos, disport, annals, paean, paradisiacal, whet and 362 more...
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lanklenmot's Words
ineluctable, prelapsarian, bien pensant, prospero, preternatural, gratifying, iconoclast, cineast, persnickety, tumescent, galvanize, pap and 887 more...
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learning
A list of words whose meanings I am learning, either because a) I don't know the meaning b) I know the meaning, but could stand to better appreciate certain inflections or secondary meanings or c) ...
louche, educe, loam, cob, sclerotic, palliate, axial, syndicalist, ecumenical, sally, fatuous, parvenu and 1381 more...
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random
words I read but don't know
nascent, proxy, desultory, charlatan, churlish, emaciated, gaudy, shill, lurid, frisson, marauding, plunder and 610 more...
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zetadiction
words that embody life
hydrae, kleptocracy, curmudgeon, wordie, risotto, qi, pulchritudinous, micropolitan, schadenfreude, neolithic, experimentalist, zeta and 477 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3251 more...
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pleasure in words
portmanteau, pharology, cosmicism, amiable, vice, cognition, clavicle, veer, affulent, hospitable, dystopia, wunderkind and 59 more...
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random furrin borrowings
gaucherie, robot, eminence grise, hoi polloi, feuilleton, rapprochement, cherchez la femme, hors de combat, je ne sais quoi, laissez-faire, apparatchik, bolshevik and 53 more...
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Sexy and saucy words!
glabrous, gamine, svelte, toothsome, assignation, intrigue, ravish, besotted, dissolute, tumescence, coquette, coquet and 66 more...
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Not English
ancien régime, amour propre, belle époque, au fait, bon vivant, cognoscenti, joie de vivre, enfant terrible, entente cordiale, fille de joie, macquillage, noblesse and 21 more...
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