v. [f. EGOT-ISM: see -IZE.] intr. To talk or write in an egotistic way.
Hence Egotizing vbl. sb. and ppl. a.
1789. Cowper, Lett., 6 June, in Wks. (1836), II. 322. I egotize in my letters to thee.
1791. 2nd Ep. J. Priestley, in Poet. Register (1808), 406.
| E’en the first egotizing sentence flags, | |
| And ev’ry lumpish period still-born lags. |
1811. Miss L. M. Hawkins, C’tess & Gertr., II. 75. But I am involving myself in the sins of preaching and egotising.
1865. R. Paul, Lett., in Mem., xx. (1872), 328. I am not going to egotize.
