“illeism”的英英意思

单词 illeism
释义 illeism nonce-wd.|ˈɪlɪɪz(ə)m|
[f. L. ille that man, he: after egoism.]
Excessive use of the pronoun he (either in reference to another person or to oneself in the third person).
1809–10Coleridge Friend (1818) I. 36 For one piece of egotism..there are fifty that steal out in the mask of tuisms and ille-isms.1817Biog. Lit. 4 An index expurgatorius of certain well known and ever returning phrases, both introductory and transitional, including the large assortment of modest egotisms and flattering illeisms.
So ˈilleist, one who makes much use of the pronoun he, or writes of himself as he.
1832Blackw. Mag. XXXII. 241 Your intense egotist cunningly avoids the use of the first personal pronoun. He is, in fact, an Ille-ist.

 

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