altruistn.

1868 J. T. Nettleship Ess. Browning's Poetry vi. 167 His development as a great altruist.

1881 Daily News 27 Aug. 5/1 If they were thorough altruists, a sweet reasonableness would induce them to avoid inflicting..distress.

1901 School Rev. 9 350 The attempts of many namby-pamby altruists..stand in the way of..selfhood.

1929 F. Nebel in Black Mask May 25/2 What we need is a crusader. Not a preaching, scripture-quoting, holier-than-thou sort of fellow. Not an altruist.

1992 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 19 Nov. 52/1 If I am perceived as a good altruist through acts that help nonrelatives, then other people are more likely to help me when I am in need.

2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 3 Dec. 32/4 To the extent that the genuine altruist serves his own interests by helping another person, he must remain unconscious of those interests.

1897 Rev. of Reviews Mar. 254/2 (heading) Birds better altruists than mammals.

1932 J. B. S. Haldane Causes Evol. 210 Consider a tribe in which the proportion of altruists is sufficient to cause the number of the gene for it to increase.

1989 Nature 14 Dec. 741/2 Social-insect workers may be the ultimate reproductive altruists, but their altruism can be less than pure.

2002 P. Pomper & D. G. Shaw Return Sci. vi. 102 Our altruist birds need not become extinct right away if they sound their alarm calls for the benefit of an isolated population with a heavy concentration of altruists.