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‖ Marivaudage|marivodaʒ|
[Fr., f. the name of P. C. de Marivaux (1688–1763), novelist and dramatist.]
The expression of affected language and exaggerated sentiment in the style of Marivaux; an overdone attempt at refinement, affectation.
1765H. Walpole Let. 19 Nov. in Corr. (1948) XIII. 144 Crébillon is entirely out of fashion, and Marivaux a proverb: marivauder, and marivaudage are established terms for being prolix and tiresome. 1882G. Saintsbury Short Hist. French Lit. iv. ii. 410 All the work of Marivaux, dramatic and non-dramatic, is pervaded more or less by a peculiarity which at the time received the name of Marivaudage. This peculiarity exists partly in the sentiment, and partly in the phraseology. The former is characteristic of the eighteenth century, disguising a considerable affectation under a mask of simplicity, and the latter (sparkling with abundant, if somewhat precious wit) is ingeniously constructed to suit it and carry it off. 1894Beerbohm in Yellow Bk. II. 284 The qualities that I tried.. to travesty—paradox and marivaudage. 1930Mod. Lang. Rev. XXV. 71 Marivaudage..to quote Faguet..‘consists much more in analysing to excess a just thought than in decking out to excess an empty one’. 1959Oxf. Compan. French Lit. 455/2 The term marivaudage, coined from his name, is used to signify the analysis of the delicate sentiments of the heart and the subtle, affected style used by Marivaux to this end in his comedies. 1969Observer 12 Jan. 26/5 It [sc. Lesbianism] is a tricky subject, poised on the brink of either tiresome marivaudage or tasteless titillation. |