nosism

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"Racism" is no worst than "left-handism," or "long nosism," or "long hairism," etc.

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  1. Self-esteem in a group corresponding to egotism in an individual. N. E. D. [Rare.]
  2. Excessive use of the pronoun ‘we’ in writing or speaking. On the one hand, it tempts a man to indulge in Nosism, where modesty and a sense of propriety would have made him shrink from undisguised egotism. Edinburgh Rev., July, 1864, p. 52.

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