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▪ I. attiˈtudinizing, vbl. n. [f. as prec. + -ing1.] The practice or assumption of attitudes; posturing; mode of action purposely assumed.
1813H. & J. Smith Rej. Addr. 59 The brisk locomotion of Columbine or the tortuous attitudinizing of Punch. 1869Black In Silk Attire I. xiii, To throw off the cold attitudinizing of life. ▪ II. attiˈtudinizing, ppl. a. [f. as prec. + -ing2.] That practises or assumes attitudes of body, conduct, or mind; posturing.
1853Macready in Four C. Eng. Lett. 511 The morbidly acute sensibility..of Hamlet to be frozen up..in a declaiming and attitudinising statue or automaton. 1879Geo. Eliot Theo. Such v. 113 An attitudinizing deference. |