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culte du moi

culte du moi noun: the cult of the ego; ego worship.

Noun

culte du moi (uncountable)

  1. The cult of the ego; ego worship.
    • However, after a while, Barrès seems to have felt that the 'Culte de moi' was scarcely satisfactory as a rule of life, and in 1897, with 'Les deracinés,' began a new series of three novels under the collective title, 'Roman de l'énergie nationale.'1915, The Library, Oxford University Press, page 119
    • The culte du moi is one thing when it is representative, when one rhapsodizes one's self haughtily as a unit of the democratic mass, as Whitman undoubtedly did; and quite another when it is narrowly personal, a kind of glorification of the petty, personal attributes of young John Smith, used by him...1911 February, Cornelia A. P. Comer, “A Letter to the Rising Generation”, in The Atlantic

Origin of culte du moi

Borrowed from French culte du moi (“cult of the me”). Introduced by the homme de lettres Maurice Barrès (1862–1923) in his homonymous book trilogy (1888–1891), in English entitled The Cult of the Self.

Questions about culte du moi

What does culte du moi mean?
Culte du moi means the cult of the ego; ego worship.
What part of speech is culte du moi?
Culte du moi is a noun.

Words near culte du moi in the dictionary

  1. cultbuster
  2. cultbusters
  3. cultch
  4. cultches
  5. cultdom
  6. culte du moi
  7. culter
  8. culteranismo
  9. culters
  10. culthead
  11. cultheads

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