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Self-righteousness is the attitude itself: being proudly sure that your beliefs, attitudes, and morals are good and right, in a way that other people. It is the noun for what a self-righteous person is showing. We use it to name a fault, not a virtue — sermons, columns, and arguments like the word. Though actually, the line can be thin: standing up for what is right and sliding into self-righteousness can look similar from the outside; the extra piece is the pride and the looking-down. It is normally uncountable: her self-righteousness, not a self-righteousness.
自以為是；自以為義
組成self-righteous（自以為是的）+ -ness（變成名詞：那種態度），或 self- + righteousness。
同家族的字
- self-righteousthe adjective this noun is built from
- righteousnessthe other build: self- + righteousness
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
self-righteousnessnoun
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Confidence in one's own righteousness, self-assurance, smugness.
- The book of Job warns us against self-righteousness, since no man can justify himself to God.
- The heroines of these plays speak out against intraracial biases, stereotyping, lynchmobs, illiteracy, poverty, promiscuity, self-righteousness, verbally abusive men, rape, and miscegenation. […] Without warning the doctor, she chokes the life out of her child in order to keep him safe from white lynchmobs.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。