egoist

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She can't help it Again the egoist was awake and speaking within him.

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  1. noun One devoted to one's own interests and advancement; an egocentric person.
  2. noun An egotist.
  3. noun An adherent of egoism.

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  • If you were an egoist, and a conceited person, I would say that it was your normal condition; but with you who are so good and so generous, it is an anomaly, an evil that must be combated. —  The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters
  • She can't help it Again the egoist was awake and speaking within him. —  The Call of the Blood
  • An unselfish egoist is a man who has pride without the excuse of passion. —  Orthodoxy
  • Suppose I am an egoist, a despot and a fool but I ask you to go! —  Love
  • A giant egoist, and as human, all too human, a fellow as Spain ever begot, Goya is only hinted at in Baudelaire's searching quatrain beginning: "Goya, cauchemar plein de choses inconnues." —  Promenades of an Impressionist
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egotist ·  blasphemers ·  self-assertion ·  seducer ·  egoism ·  egotism ·  humbug ·  lawbreaker ·  hectoring ·  coxcombs ·  vulgarian ·  cynic
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  1. = D. G. Danish Swedish egoist = French egoïste = Spanish Portuguese Italian egoista; as ego + -ist.
 

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