Word of the Week from Webster’s 1828 Dictionary: EGOTIST, n. One who repeats the word I very often in conversation or writing; one who speaks much of himself, or magnifies his own achievements; one who makes himself the hero of every tale.
Webster is careful to distinguish this term from “egoist,” which he defines as “a name given to certain followers of Des Cartes, who held that they were uncertain of every thing except their own existence and the operations and ideas of their own minds.”
