a. [f. prec. + -IC.] Pertaining to, or characterized by, egotism.

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c. 1860.  Wraxall, trans. R. Houdin, iv. 36. I began to lose the egotistic indifference which a lengthened illness usually produces.

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1865.  Reader, 8 July, 30. His diction is entirely his own, avowedly egotistic.

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1876.  Mozley, Univ. Serm., iii. 80. The Christian hope of immortality cannot be an egotistic hope.

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