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‖ raisonneur|rɛzɔnœr|
[Fr., lit. ‘one who reasons or argues’.]
A character in a play, etc., who gives expression to the author's message, standpoint, or philosophy. Also transf. and (nonce-wd.) as v. intr.
1903Beerbohm in Sat. Rev. 5 Dec. 700/2 There is an old man [in Gorki's Lower Depths]..in whom we dimly descry a ‘raisonneur’. 1913G. B. Shaw Quintessence of Ibsenism 177 Poins, who was originally meant to be the raisonneur of the piece, and the chief figure among the prince's dissolute associates. 1950E. H. Carr Bolshevik Revol. I. ii. 38 The Mensheviks..were primarily men of theory; in Bolshevik terminology they were raisonneurs, ‘dry-as-dust archivists’, the ‘party intelligentsia’. 1955Times 24 May 3/3 The raisonneur, for example, the family friend who announces the thesis of the play, draws the moral, and preaches his little sermons to the parties concerned, is bound to strike us as something of a nuisance. 1959Listener 29 Oct. 749/1 He is clearly introduced as the play's raisonneur, the doughty exponent of a radical viewpoint. 1963Wodehouse Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves xii. 97, I saw that the time had come to be a raisonneur... ‘Are you sure,’ I said, raisonneuring like nobody's business, ‘that you were altogether wise in confining him to spinach and what not?’ 1969M. R. Booth Eng. Plays of 19th Cent. II. 345 It seems rather unfair that..the worldly raisonneurs..are responsible for breaking up love affairs between young people and..forcing unhappy wives to stay with unpleasant and incompatible husbands, yet are themselves blessed with the hands in marriage of comely widows of means. 1980Times Lit. Suppl. 23 May 581/1 Dottie..is a scatterbrained raisonneur, on stage throughout, directing her two lovers..to their respective concealment in kitchen or spare bedroom. |