| 释义 |
egoˈtistical, a.
[f. as prec. + -ical.]
= prec.
1825Macaulay Milton, Ess. (1851) I. 14 The character of a writer from the passages directly egotistical. 1841D'Israeli Amen. Lit. (1867) 321 Patriotism has often covered the most egotistical motives. 1859Thackeray Virgin. lxxxvi. (1878) 697, I have a right to be garrulous and egotistical. 1870Disraeli Lothair xlix. 268, I am talking in an..egotistical..manner.
Hence egoˈtistically adv., in an egotistical manner, as a result of egotism.
1809–12M. Edgeworth Vivian iii. (1832) 195 Egotistically secured from the pains of sympathy. 1848Dickens Dombey (C.D. ed.) 66 An old black cat..lay..upon the centre foot of the fender purring egotistically. 1880H. James Benvolio i. 344 A man..who assumes, a trifle egotistically, that the rest of the world was equally at leisure. |