illeismn.
/ˈɪlɪɪz(ə)m/ Excessive use of the pronoun he (either in reference to another person or to oneself in the third person).Apparently only in the works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
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illeism1809
1809–10 S. T. Coleridge Friend (1818) I. 36 For one piece of egotism..there are fifty that steal out in the mask of tuisms and ille-isms.
1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. 4 An index expurgatorius of certain well known and ever returning phrases, both introductory and transitional, including the large assortment of modest egotisms and flattering illeisms.
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ˈilleist n. one who makes much use of the pronoun he, or writes of himself as he.Apparently an isolated use.
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illeist1832
1832 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 32 241 Your intense egotist cunningly avoids the use of the first personal pronoun. He is, in fact, an Ille-ist.
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n.1809- to be deep in a person's books
- to be deep into a person's books
- to be deeply seated
- to be descended
- to be descended from
- to be descended of
- to be descended out of
- to be despaired
- to be destined
- to be determined
- to be determined on or upon
- to be disappointed in
- to be disappointed with
- to be displeased
- to be disposed of
- to be dog at
- to be doing
- to be domestic of
- to be domestic with
- to be done
- to be doubted
- to be down
- to be down for
- to be down for a specified amount of time
- to be down for a specified crime