illeism

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It is effectively the Baseball Hall of Fame's pause before the steroid storm really hits, so let's all sit back and chuckle at Rickey Henderson's illeism and malapropisms and magnificent sense of self.

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  1. The unnecessarily frequent use of the pronoun he by a writer, especially in reference to himself in the third person; also, an instance of this use. Coleridge.

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  • It is effectively the Baseball Hall of Fame's pause before the steroid storm really hits, so let's all sit back and chuckle at Rickey Henderson's illeism and malapropisms and magnificent sense of self. —  Top Stories - Google News
 

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