Definition of "self-complacency" [self•-com•pla•cen•cy]

• The quality of being self-complacent. (noun)

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• "In "The Five-Forty-Eight" it's his self-complacency and then its replacement by terror and self-disgust."
• "The ancient Jews had the egotism and self-complacency to consider themselves “the chosen people of God” and fancied that they were the special objects of his regard as against the rest of mankind; but, instead of having been the better for this boast, the final result was their utter overthrow, and miserable dispersion in various parts of the earth, which continues to this day."
• "Out of that self-complacency the rebellion of Robert Emmet awoke the English people."