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- noun Plural form of
altruism .
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Examples
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When you push humanity, you don't always get lovely altruisms.
Torchwood Finale Postmortem: Espenson on Jilly's Revelation, Big Twists and a Lack of Aliens 2011
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When you push humanity, you don't always get lovely altruisms.
Torchwood Finale Postmortem: Espenson on Jilly's Revelation, Big Twists and a Lack of Aliens 2011
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It's amazing when I learn about interspecies altruisms.
Research & Questions Nalini Singh 2008
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We remember how Communism rests upon that most degrading of all assumptions about human nature, the assumption of sheer selfishness as basic and of all the apparent altruisms as but selfishness in disguise.
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Those who had glasses were mostly on the upper deck, so Jimmie did not see anything of the rescue; the transports, of course, did not swerve or delay, for their orders forbade all altruisms.
Jimmie Higgins Upton Sinclair 1923
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Unselfishness, devotion, pity and the higher altruisms all hark back to the home as their source.
Woman in Modern Society Earl Barnes 1898
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In this sense, it can be truly said that it gives a motive for our care of offspring, and for all our other most self-forgetful devotions, our finest altruisms, our most polished expressions in language, manners and dress.
Woman in Modern Society Earl Barnes 1898
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But Naseby had some fresh advances to report since she was last in East London, and she drank them in with an eagerness, which somehow assuaged a hidden smart; while he wondered a little perhaps in his philosopher's soul at the woman of our English day, with her compunctions and altruisms, her entanglement with the old scheme of things, her pining for a new.
Sir George Tressady — Volume II Humphry Ward 1885
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It cannot be said, however, in this age marked by altruisms, that he was altruistic; on the contrary, he loved himself, and made himself his prime study -- but as a member of the human race, he had his own purposes to fulfill, his own self-appointed tasks, and he preferred to take men only on his own terms.
Authors and Friends Annie Fields 1874
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Over and over again, when reading newspaper articles full of pompous words borrowed from Latin through French, when wearied with 'velleities' and 'solidarities' and 'altruisms' and
The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator Senator Cassiodorus 1872
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