Self-respect is a sense of your own dignity. Keep your self-respect.
It is strong enough to stop you acting in ways that would demean you. Self-respect is not the same as pride, since it is about what you will not do.
1nounself-respectA sense of your own dignity strong enough to stop you from acting in ways that would demean you.
“He resigned with his self-respect and nothing else.”
self-respect is a feeling.
Middle English
self
English
self
English, today
self-respect
From self- + respect. self comes from Middle English self. From Middle English salve, self, silf, from Old English self, seolf, sylf, from Proto-Germanic selbaz, from Proto-Indo-European selbʰ- (“one's own”). 2
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