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alter ego|ˈɔːltər ˈiːgəʊ, ˈæltər ˈɛgəʊ|
[L. (Cicero), alter another, ego I. Cf. Gr. ἄλλος ἐγώ, ἕτερος ἐγώ.]
A second self; an intimate and trusted friend; a confidential agent or representative. Hence ˌalter-ˈegoism, altruism; ˌalter-egoˈistic a., altruistic.
1537R. Layton Let. 4 June in Lett. Suppress. Monast. (1843) 156 Ye muste have suche as ye may trust evyn as well as your owne self, wiche muste be unto yowe as alter ego. 1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d'Alf. i. ii. 24 She would tell him, that I was his alter ego, that he and I were one. 1650Trapp Comm. Gen. ii. 18 One..that may be to him as an Alter-ego, a second-self. 1652N. Culverwel Lt. Nature 10 We use to call a friend Alter ego. 1872Geo. Eliot Middlem. v. li. 148 These people might not take that high view of you which I have always taken, as an alter ego, a right hand. 1880Meredith Trag. Comedians I. v. 93 The pleasure she had of the sensational comparison was in an alteregoistic home she found in him, that allowed of her gathering a picked self-knowledge. 1886Law Times Rep. LIV. 856/1 He who makes the contract agrees to the condition that it shall not be binding on the person whose alter ego or representative he is if he has made any misrepresentation, or has been guilty of any concealment. 1901M. F. Libby in Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. XII. 470 The social affections in Shaftesbury generally mean the alteregoistic affections. Ibid. 485 His tendency to see patriotic and cosmic affections as an expansion of the narrower forms of alteregoism, as shown in love, family, and party relations. 1926D. H. Lawrence Plumed Serpent i. 10 ‘Isn't that fun!’ ‘No,’ said Kate, her little alter ego speaking out for once. 1936Mind XLV. 72 The wider forms of alter-egoism (so-called altruism, which is really égoisme à deux, à trois, etc.). 1939A. J. Toynbee Study Hist. VI. 44 The One True God whose alter ego Allāh was now proclaimed to be.
fig.1856S. Dobell Eng. in time of War 80 Methinks the fruit But alter ego of the root. |