单词 | philauty |
释义 | † philautyn. Obsolete. Self-love; undue regard for oneself or one's own interests; selfishness; = philautia n. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > self-interest > [noun] > self-love philautia1528 self-love1539 philauty1564 self-lovingnessa1628 self-partiality1628 1564 in P. F. Tytler Hist. Scotl. (1864) III. 401 Phylautye which maketh us fancy too much our own conceptions. 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 86/2 There we see philautie or selfe-love, which rageth in men so preposterouslie. 1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs §72 And will have philautie to be natures first-born. 1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. at Geese This Proverb intimates that an inbred Philauty runs through the whole Race. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1564 |
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