What is "selfishnesses"

Usage examples of "selfishnesses".

And he hated the thought that his mind might be wide open to hers, all his carefully repressed and buried cowardices and selfishnesses and hypocrisies and, yes, shameful lusts on display, waving like banners in the breeze.

Her influence upon his wife, a woman devoured by all sorts of small selfishnesses, small envies, small jealousies, was excellent.

He’d learned to use the strengths and selfishnesses of other princes to gain what he wanted.

It's a wise man who knows what his own selfishnesses are and who can set them aside.

When they think of me, Allan and Theresa, I pray now that they will recall what I did that night, and that my thousand frustrations and selfishnesses may shrivel and be blown from their indulgent memories.

And that is the measure of our selfishnesses and our self-conceits-that conformations such as we still must strive for identities.