Definition of "egotisms" [egotisms]

• Plural form of egotism. (noun)

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• "They are miserable little egotisms, like all the other little humans, fluttering their May-fly life - dance of an hour."
• "As for her love for her children, the above passage will show how much she was capable of true maternal feeling: the very sentence in which she records the death of one child serves to betray her egotisms, and to wreak her spleen against myself; and she only wishes to recall another from the grave, in order that he may be of some personal advantage to her."
• "It means triumph over the petty egotisms and vanities that keep men on our earth apart; it means devotion and a nobler hope; it cannot exist without a gigantic process of inquiry, trial, forethought and patience in an atmosphere of mutual trust and concession."