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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The doctrine that all thought is addressed to a second person, or to one's future self as to a second person.
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'tuism'; -- B. is one who, feeling the ill effects of a contrary habit, contemplates sobriety with blameless envy.
Literary Remains, Volume 1 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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Coleridge has a note dated 1800 (_Literary Remains_, i. 292), on "egotizing in _tuism_" but it was not included in Southey's _Omniana_ of 1812, and must have been unknown to Byron.] {576} [778] [Sc. _toilette_, a Gallicism.] [779] [Byron loved to make fact and fancy walk together, but, here, his memory played him false, or his art kept him true.
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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