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Altruist   Listen
noun
Altruist  n.  One imbued with altruism; opposed to egoist.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Altruist" Quotes from Famous Books



... altruist who refrains from devoting himself to one woman in order that he may scatter sweetness and ...
— A Guide to Men - Being Encore Reflections of a Bachelor Girl • Helen Rowland

... which the doctrine of Mine and of Thine has— E'en Integrity's self you must lay on the shelf (I allude, not to Europe's but China's)! Let detractors contend that your means and your end are the end and the means of the vulture— Such an altruist plan must betoken the man who is bent ...
— Lyra Frivola • A. D. Godley

... Galilee. As if there were any inconsistency between having a love for humanity and having a hatred for inhumanity! Altruists, with thin, weak voices, denounce Christ as an egoist. Egoists (with even thinner and weaker voices) denounce Him as an altruist. In our present atmosphere such cavils are comprehensible enough. The love of a hero is more terrible than the hatred of a tyrant. The hatred of a hero is more generous than the love of a philanthropist. There is ...
— Orthodoxy • G. K. Chesterton



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