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platitudinize, v.|plætɪˈtjuːdɪnaɪz|
[f. as platitudinarian n. and a. + -ize.]
intr. To utter platitudes. Hence platitudiniˈzation (in quot. as if from a trans. sense ‘to impart a character of platitude to’); platiˈtudinizer, platiˈtudinism.
1885Sat. Rev. 7 Feb. 191/2 A diplomatist..is a man who retains the tradition and faculty of respectable platitude. Many men now platitudinize, but not as a rule respectably. 1888Ibid. 18 Feb. 179/1 The platform platitudinizers. 1893Pall Mall Mag. II. 351/2 He moves platitudinising and attitudinising through a play. 1895Zangwill Master 441 Art—the last of the rebels against the platitudinisation of life. 1897Strand Mag. Aug. 179 He has a rich gift of what an eminent American calls ‘platitudinizing’. The word..is most effective as indicating a constant ever fed supply of pointless words, wrapped up in cotton woolly sentences. 1903Ch. Times 12 June 747/2 The Archbishop of Canterbury departed a little from the area of platitudinism, when..he alluded to the ‘passive resistance’ movement. |