Suist

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A selfish person obsolete

    "[…] rather than alter his pace, or path (that Conscience or Reason boundeth him in) he will bee poor, undone; any thing but the Ratio formalis, essentiall of a Suist, or selfe-polititian, that is changeable."

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selfist

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"[…] rather than alter his pace, or path (that Conscience or Reason boundeth him in) he will bee poor, undone; any thing but the Ratio formalis, essentiall of a Suist, or selfe-polititian, that is changeable."

Etymology

Latin suus (“belonging to himself or oneself”) + -ist.

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