self-concitedness

Updated: May 13, 2025

Hence such a time is rightly said to be a time to try us, or to find out what we are; and is there no good in this? Is it not this that rightly rectifies our judgment about ourselves, that makes us to know ourselves, that tends to cut off those superfluous sprigs of pride and self-concitedness, wherewith we are subject to be overcome?

John Bunyan - The Riches of Bunyan : Selected from His Works