Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Love of self; selfishness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Self-love; selfishness.
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- noun obsolete
Selfishness .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I know for certain, and therefore may I with the greater confidence utter my conception of it, that philauty, or self-love, is that which blinds your judgment and deceiveth you.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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I know for certain, and therefore may I with the greater confidence utter my conception of it, that philauty, or self-love, is that which blinds your judgment and deceiveth you.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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I know for certain, and therefore may I with the greater confidence utter my conception of it, that philauty, or self-love, is that which blinds your judgment and deceiveth you.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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In despite of the inutility in which men for the most part pass their existence, maugre the little care they bestow, to render themselves dear to the beings who environ them; notwithstanding the numerous actions they commit to displease their associates; the self love of each individual, persuades him, that his death must he an interesting occurrence: few men but think themselves an Euryalus in friendship, all expect to find a Nisus, thus man's over-weening philauty shews him to say thus the order of things are overturned at his decease.
The System of Nature, Volume 1 Paul Henri Thiry Holbach 1756
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