Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Selfishness; egotism; egoism: the opposite of
altruism .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Selfishness; egoism.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete
selfishness ;egoism - noun obsolete
suicide
Etymologies
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Latin suus one's own.
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Examples
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_his own_ things (‘sua’), and the sin itself, ‘suicism’.
English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846
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‘suist’, and ‘suicism’, in lieu of those which have ultimately been adopted.
English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846
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