self glorious (selfglorius)

Springing from vainglory or vanity; vain; boastful. [Rare.] Then you may talk, and be believ'd, and grow worse, And have your too self - glorious temper rock'd Into a dead sleep. Beau , and Fl . , King and No King, iv. 2. That self-governed (self-guv'èrnd), a. Governed by one's self or itself: as, a self - governed state. self-governing (self-guv'er-ning), a. governs itself: as, a self - governing colony. self-government (self-guv'èrn-ment), n. 1. The government of one's self; self-control.2. The government of a nation, province, district, or town by itself, either in all points or in certain particulars (as local affairs). It is to self - government , the great principle of popular representation and administration - the system that lets in all to participate in the counsels that are to a ign the good or evil to all-that we may owe what we are and what we hope to be. D. Webster. Re