单词 | tuism |
释义 | tuismn. rare. A form of expression involving the use of the pronoun thou, or implying reference to a second person; also, in Ethics, primary regard to the interests of another person or persons (opposed to egoism n. 2, egotism n. 2); in Philosophy, ‘the doctrine that all thought is addressed to a second person, or to one's future self as a second person’ ( Cent. Dict. 1891; cf. egoism n. 1). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > conversation > addressing or speaking to > [noun] > specific forms of address deanship1588 tuism1796 society > morality > virtue > morally elevated quality > unselfishness > [noun] > primary regard to interests of another tuism1884 1796 S. T. Coleridge Watchman 9 Mar. 38 Omitting the long preambles..and the whole parade of egotisms and tuisms: we shall select from each speech [etc.]. 1809–10 S. T. Coleridge Friend (1818) I. iv. 36 For one piece of egotism that presents itself under its own honest bare face of ‘I myself I’, there are fifty that steal out in the mask of tuisms and ille-isms. 1824 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XVI xiii. 67 To hail her with the apostrophe—‘Oh, thou!’ Of amatory egotism the Tuism. 1884 J. Rae Contemp. Socialism 124 Feuerbach's peculiar ethical principle..has been well termed Tuism, to distinguish it from Egoism. Derivatives ˈtuistic adj. [see -istic suffix] of the nature of tuism. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > conversation > addressing or speaking to > [adjective] > relating to specific forms of expression tuistic1880 1880 H. Bradshaw in Life (1888) 292 You should..avoid..the tuistic form of letter. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1796 |
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