a. [f. prec. + -AL.] = prec. Hence Egoistically adv., from an egoistical point of view.
1842. Sir W. Hamilton, in Reid’s Wks., II. 817/1. If the Idea be regarded as a mode of the human mind itself, we have a scheme of Egoistical Idealism.
1836. Sir H. Taylor, Statesman, xxxi. 235. There is a dignity in the desire to be right … which will not fail to supersede what is egoistical and frivolous in a man’s personal feelings in society.
1847. Lewes, Hist. Philos. (1867), I. 57. He had learned to despise the splendours of rank and fortune, without being misanthropical or egoistical.
1879. H. Spencer, Data Ethics, xii. 207. Each profits egoistically from the growth of an altruism.
