单词 | weism |
释义 | weismn. The too frequent use of ‘we’ (see we pron. 2b) by a speaker or writer. Cf. wegotism n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > [noun] > use of 'we' wegotism1797 weism1800 nosism1829 1800 Anti-Jacobin Rev.& Mag. 5 58 What intolerable weism! more revolting than the worst species of egotism! 1833 Fraser's Mag. Apr. 505 His ‘egotism’, so offensive to the we-ism of the press. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1800 |
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