| 单词 |
wegotism |
| 释义 |
wegotism|ˈwiːgətɪz(ə)m| [A jocular formation on we and egotism.] An obtrusive and too frequent use of the first person plural by a speaker or writer.
1797Brit. Critic IX. 424 A more trifling matter of objection is the use of the plural form [we] throughout in speaking of himself... In an individual preacher..it seems a strange desertion of propriety: and if used to avoid egotism, leads to that which..if we did not too much respect etymology, we might jocularly style Wegotism. 1811L. M. Hawkins C'tess & Gertr. I. Introd., We may have blended wegotism and egotism; but Cæsar writes ‘dixeram’ and ‘scripsimus’. 1881H. J. Jennings Curios. Crit. 156 What has been called the ‘wegotism’ of the press. |

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