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egoistical, a.|ɛg-, iːgəʊˈɪstɪkəl|
[f. prec. + -al1.]
= prec. Hence egoˈistically adv., from an egoistical point of view.
1842Sir W. Hamilton in Reid's Wks. II. 817/1 If the Idea be regarded as a mode of the human mind itself, we have a scheme of Egoistical Idealism. 1836Sir H. Taylor Statesman xxxi. 235 There is a dignity in the desire to be right..which will not fail to supersede what is egoistical and frivolous in a man's personal feelings in society. 1847Lewes Hist. Philos. (1867) I. 57 He had learned to despise the splendours of rank and fortune, without being misanthropical or egoistical. 1879H. Spencer Data Ethics xii. 207 Each profits egoistically from the growth of an altruism. |