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selfist|ˈsɛlfɪst|
Also 7 selfeist.
[f. self n. + -ist.]
A self-centred or selfish person.
1649J. E[llistone] tr. Behmen's Ep. i. §62 [It] covetously desireth to draw their life and maintenance to it selfe, and to make it selfe a Lord over it, and will be a Selfeist [orig. ein eigenes].
1829I. Taylor Enthus. ix. 223 The anchoret is a selfist by his very profession. 1857J. Hamilton Less. fr. Biogr. (1859) 270, I have been a mere selfist, living for men's praise. |