| 单词 |
nosism |
| 释义 |
nosism|ˈnɒsɪz(ə)m| [f. L. nos we + -ism.] 1. An attitude of mind in a group of persons, corresponding to egotism in the individual.
1819Blackw. Mag. V. 97 The egotism or nosism of the other luminaries of the Lake School, is at times extravagant enough, and amusing enough withal. 2. The use of ‘we’ in stating one's own opinions.
1829Examiner 162/1 We will be consistent according to the fashionable virtue of the day in nos-ism. 1864Edin. Rev. July 52 It tempts a man to indulge in Nos-ism, where modesty..would have made him shrink from undisguised egotism. |

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