[f. WE pron. + -ISM, after egoism.] The too frequent use of ‘we’ (see WE pron. 2 b) by a speaker or writer. Cf. WEGOTISM.
1800. Anti-Jacobin Rev., V. 58. What intolerable weism! more revolting than the worst species of egotism!
1833. Fraser’s Mag., April, 505. His ‘egotism,’ so offensive to the we-ism of the press.
