self-regard

English

Etymology

From self- +‎ regard.

Noun

self-regard (countable and uncountable, plural self-regards)

1. regard for or consideration of oneself or one's own interests
   • 1864, William Edward Hearn, Plutology: Or, The Theory of the Efforts to Satisfy Human Wants, MacMillan and Co., page 334:

     It expresses the influence exercised by the self-regard of one man upon the self-regard of another. It arises from the right to pursue a man's own interest, subject only to the limitation of not obstructing his neighbor's corresponding right.