self-conceitedness

And on the contrary, is in the mean while busie with flatteries, to stir up the husband to idle imaginations and self-conceitedness; demonstrating unto him, that he is the Lord, and guide of his Wife; created to command her, and she to obey him.

The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple A. Marsh

Page 60 it is needful that we enter into and forthwith establish some orderly Christian-like government of former usage in the Church of Christ; and, being desirous to avoid all appearance of evil, by self-conceitedness, or an intent to promote or establish any new human device among us ... ...

History of the Afro-American Group of the Episcopal Church George Freeman 1922

To which, if there be added, as is usual, a correcting of any mistake, or a contradiction of what has been said, it is a mark of yet greater pride and self-conceitedness, when we thus intrude our selves for teachers, and take upon us either to set another right in his story, or shew the mistakes of his judgment.

Some Thoughts Concerning Education. Sections 141-150 1909

Therefore the Lord purifies the Soul which he calls, and will have for himself, with the rough file of temptation, with which he polishes it from the rust of pride, avarice, vanity, ambition, presumption, and self-conceitedness.

The spiritual guide which disentangles the soul / by Michael de Molinos ; edited with an introduction by Kathleen Lyttelton and a note by H. Scott Holland. 1907

The declaration of independence of the scientific man, his emancipation from philosophy, is one of the subtler after-effects of democratic organization and disorganization: the self - glorification and self-conceitedness of the learned man is now everywhere in full bloom, and in its best springtime -- which does not mean to imply that in this case self-praise smells sweet.

Beyond Good and Evil Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872

Note, Pride and self-conceitedness are sins that most easily beset great men, who have great things in the world.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721

We have one cause of this indifference and inconsistency in religion assigned, and that is self-conceitedness or self-delusion.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721

He charges him with intolerable arrogancy and self-conceitedness.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721

Indulged slothfulness is at the bottom of prevailing self-conceitedness.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721

God, fell into the most gross and absurd conceits: and it was the just punishment of their pride and self-conceitedness.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721