Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
self-opinionated .
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Examples
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The Wordsworths and Coleridges who patronized him were too self-opiniated and individualistic to be able to enter into either tradition.
Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions John Cowper Powys 1917
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Be very sure -- try to be very sure -- that I am not obstinate and self-opiniated beyond measure.
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_ Hon'ble Sir, and you will see how transcendentally superior are even such poor effusions compared to the fiddle-faddle and gim-crack style of article with which you are being fobbed off by puzzle-headed and self-opiniated nincompoops.
Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. F. Anstey 1895
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However, Ody never did this nor anything worse than wax somewhat over-confident and self-opiniated; and
Strangers at Lisconnel Jane Barlow 1887
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There was little discipline; the officers were for the most part ignorant of their duties and were of the same social standing as their men; and the New England privates, self-opiniated and obstinate, showed little respect for their orders.
The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration William Hunt 1886
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"Faix an 'I have, yer honour; an' if I haven't run down an 'kilt half the population o' that town, wotever's its name, no thanks to this self-opiniated beast," replied Flaggan, giving the bridle a savage pull.
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Be very sure ” try to be very sure ” that I am not obstinate and self-opiniated beyond measure.
The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Kenyon, Frederic G 1898
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Yet it is almost better, like these, to wallow in blind ignorance than wantonly to doubt the Creator because He is unseen, or to put a self-opiniated construction on His mysteries because He chooses to veil them from our eyes. "
A Romance of Two Worlds Marie Corelli 1889
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I'll pray for you, Owen, and He will hear the prayers even of such an obstinate, self-opiniated old woman as I am. "
Owen Hartley; or, Ups and Downs A Tale of Land and Sea William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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