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egotist|ˈɛg-, ˈiːgətɪst|
[f. as prec. + -ist.]
One who makes too frequent use of the pronoun I; one who thinks or talks too much of himself; a selfish person. Also attrib.
1714Addison Spect. No. 562 ⁋4 The most eminent Egotist..was Montaigne, the author of the..Essays. 1806R. Jamieson Pop. Ball. & Songs I. Pref. 4 A man, that acknowledges favours may be allowed to be an egotist. 1830Macintosh Eth. Philos. Wks. 1846 I. 175 As much an egotist as Montaigne; but not so agreeably so. 1848W. K. Kelly tr. L. Blanc's Hist. Ten Y. II. 452 Such is, in the egotist and vulgar meaning of the phrase, the genius of the ambitious. 1853Robertson Lect. 240 The egotist is ever speaking and thinking of that which belongs to himself alone. 1860Reade Cloister & H. lvii, The sailors were preparing to desert the sinking ship in the little boat..then there was a rush of egotists; and thirty souls crowded into it. |