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Self-proclaimed   /sɛlf-proʊklˈeɪmd/   Listen
Self-proclaimed

adjective
1.
Proclaimed to be or described as such by oneself, without endorsement by others.





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"Self-proclaimed" Quotes from Famous Books



... Republic (self-proclaimed); Karabakh Liberation Organization; Sadval, Lezgin movement; Talysh independence movement; Union of ...
— The 2008 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... "That's right," the self-proclaimed Prince-Protector said. "There's something wrong with democracy. If there weren't, it couldn't be overthrown by people like Makann, attacking it from within by democratic procedures. I don't think it's fundamentally unworkable. I think it just has a few of what engineers call bugs. It's not safe ...
— Space Viking • Henry Beam Piper
... 1992 (Federal Republic of Yugoslavia formed as self-proclaimed successor to the Socialist Federal Republic ...
— The 1995 CIA World Factbook • United States Central Intelligence Agency
... was impossible for Washington to submit. The facts being well attested, the exequatur which had been granted to Mr. Duplaine was revoked and he was forbidden further to exercise the consular functions. It will excite surprise that even this necessary measure could not escape censure. The self-proclaimed champions of liberty discovered in it a violation of the constitution and a new indignity ...
— Life And Times Of Washington, Volume 2 • John Frederick Schroeder and Benson John Lossing
... protectorate long, but not such an one as the Allies desire. A protectorate there must be, and no reason is really of weight against that protectorate being French. Let that, then, extend from the Mediterranean to the Euphrates, and from Alexandretta to where the Hedjaz already prospers in its self-proclaimed independence. It will be completely severed from Turkey by tracts under protection of one or other of the Allied Powers, any expedition through which would ...
— Crescent and Iron Cross • E. F. Benson


Words linked to "Self-proclaimed" :   declared


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