| 释义 |
† self-ˈlover Obs.
[self- 1 c.]
A lover of self; one who cares for his own interests alone.
1573L. Lloyd Marrow of Hist. (1653) 167 The self lover [doth glory] in some part of his body more then in other. 1594T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. ii. 239 Saint Paul [2 Tim. iii. 2] speaking of wicked men that should be in the latter times, saieth first, that they shoulde bee selfe-louers. 1677Gale Crt. Gentiles iv. 120 Self is the last end of self⁓lovers even in their highest acts of self-denial. 1741Richardson Pamela (1785) IV. 10 A Nurse.. may be careless, and a Self-lover; while a Mother prefers the Health of her Child to her own private Satisfactions. |