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Definition of Egomaniacs
1. egomaniac [n] - See also: egomaniac
Lexicographical Neighbors of Egomaniacs
Literary usage of Egomaniacs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1844)
"Our few leaves of absence showed us how little the people got from the war that
had been thrust on us by egomaniacs thirsty for power and glory. ..."
2. Footnotes to Evolution: A Series of Popular Addresses on the Evolution of Life by David Starr Jordan, Edwin Grant Conklin, Frank Mace McFarland, James Perrin Smith (1898)
"Neurotic freaks and egomaniacs have been found in all ages. The memory of those
of earlier ages has passed away, as those of to-day will be soon forgotten. ..."
3. My Neighbor the Workingman by James Roscoe Day (1920)
"... the fetid vapors distilled over the quagmires of alien socialism compounded
with the black ignorance of our little egomaniacs of the street gutters. ..."
4. Germany Vs. Civilization: Notes on the Atrocious War by William Roscoe Thayer (1916)
"Indeed, long before Nietzsche was born, insane asylums in all countries swarmed
with egomaniacs who had attempted to put Nietzschean principles in practice. ..."
5. Degeneration by Max Simon Nordau (1895)
"Of course the reader to whom the mental physiognomy of egomaniacs is shown ought
always to remember that, if the principal representatives of this species ..."
6. The Vital Study of Literature, and Other Essays by William Norman Guthrie (1912)
"We are hermits, harmless egomaniacs, or children grown up, (that most awful
thing)— the little babe by increase of dimension become the ..."
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