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Egoist

Egoist \E"go*ist\, n. [F. ['e]go["i]ste. See Egoism.]

  1. One given overmuch to egoism or thoughts of self.

    I, dullard egoist, taking no special recognition of such nobleness.
    --Carlyle.

  2. (Philos.) A believer in egoism.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
egoist

1763, in metaphysics, "one who maintains there is no evidence of the existence of anything but the self" (taking ego in a sense of "thinking subject"), from French égoiste (1755); see ego + -ist. Meaning "selfish person" is from 1879. Related: Egoistic; egoistical.

Wiktionary
egoist

n. 1 An advocate of egoism. 2 An egocentric or self-centered person. 3 An egotist.

WordNet
egoist
  1. n. a conceited and self-centered person [syn: egotist, swellhead]

  2. a self-centered person with little regard for others [syn: egocentric]

Wikipedia
Egoist (disambiguation)

Egoist may refer to:

  • A person with self-esteem and self-love egotism
  • An adherent of egoist anarchism
  • The Egoist (novel), 1879 novel by George Meredith
  • The Egoist (periodical), literary magazine founded by Dora Marsden
  • Egoist (band), a band produced by Ryo of Supercell with vocals by Chelly
  • "Egoist", a song by the Swedish rock band Kent from their album Då som nu för alltid
Egoist (band)

Egoist is a Japanese pop music duo consisting of songwriter Ryo of Supercell and vocalist Chelly. Originally formed to produce theme music for the 2011 anime television series Guilty Crown, the group continued creating other songs after the end of the series including themes for other anime television series including Psycho-Pass and Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress. Egoist's debut album Extra terrestrial Biological Entities was released in September 2012.

Usage examples of "egoist".

Egoist and self-promoter Ned Buntline might be, but Macklin liked the man, and knew he would miss him.

Egoist agony wrung the outcry from him that dupery is a more blessed condition.

With Fudge to feed the Hungry Bum She plays the Girl Philanthropist -- Each pinchbeck, boy Millenium She swings, a Bangle, at her wrist -- Blithe Parrot and Pert Egoist, You threaten her with Night and Sorrow?

Clara shut her eyes and rolled her eyeballs in a frenzy of unuttered revolt from the Egoist.

You know the many paintings of man transformed to rageing beast by the curse: and this, the fieriest trial of our egoism, worked in the Egoist to produce division of himself from himself, a concentration of his thoughts upon another object, still himself, but in another breast, which had to be looked at and into for the discovery of him.

Woe to the egoist who appropriates to himself a single word of this inheritance of the Word.

Because why would she bother to save the life of a commitment-phobic egoist like Jack Townsend?

Aristocrats, suspects, the doubtful, moderates, egoists, all gentlemen without distinguishing those who have done nothing for the revolution from those who have acted against it, await in retirement the ulterior measures required by the interests of the Republic.

Being egoists, it is presumed that they are hostile to the system of fraternity, at least indifferent to it, as well as lukewarm towards the Republic, that is to say, Moderates, which is the worst offense of all.

And, that none of the middle or upper class may escape, the edict subjects to special rigor, supplementary taxes, and arbitrary arrest, not alone property-holders and fund-holders, but again all persons designated under the following heads, - aristocrats, Feuillants, moderates, Girondists, federalists, muscadins, the superstitious, fanatics the abettors of royalism, of superstition and of federation, monopolists, jobbers, egoists, "suspects " of incivism, and, generally, all who are indifferent to the Revolution, of which local committees are to draw up the lists.

Thus construed, the theory divides Frenchmen into two groups: one consisting of aristocrats, fanatics, egoists, the corrupt, bad citizens in short, and the other patriots, philosophers, and the virtuous, that is to say, those belonging to the sect.

The writer would blatantly label one woman a hussie, the next a "good" woman, this man a cold-blooded egoist, the next a man of humanitarian impulses.