alazonn.

Brit.

/ˈaləzɒn/, U.S.

/ˈæləˌzɑn/

Origin: A borrowing from Greek. Etymon: Greek ἀλαζών.

Etymology: < ancient Greek ἀλαζών boaster, perhaps < Ἀλαζῶνες (plural), the name of a Thracian tribe mentioned in Herodotus. Compare alazony n., eiron n.Compare earlier use in English as the name of a character in a play:a1635 T. Randolph Muses Looking-glasse iii. iv. 62 in Poems (1638) Such as Alazon is, use their own Tongues, While reall worth hears her own praise, not speaks it. Alazon is mentioned by the Latin author Plautus as the title of a Greek comedy.

A stock character in ancient Greek comedy characterized by arrogance, misplaced self-confidence, and a failure to recognize irony. Hence in extended use: a character of this type. Contrasted with eiron n.See note at eiron n.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > part or character > [noun] > specific character

Robin Hood1473

wantonness1507

vice1552

pantaloon1592

iniquity1597

burratinea1637

scaramouch1662

Pierrot1726

gracioso1749

eiron1872

alazon1911

toby1946

1911 R. W. Bond Early Plays from Ital. Introd. p. xxvi The unpopular Spaniard quartered on unwilling Italian inhabitants is the usual representative of the Greek alazon or braggart.

1943 PMLA 58 27 His [sc. Richard III's] foil is not the stupid, over-weening alazon, of course, but the tragically helpless and simple people of England.

1957 Studies 46 77 Rhetoric or drama should have warned Joyce that Stephen the aesthetic alazon needed nothing so urgently as a correspondingly deft eiron.

1977 J. S. Fu Mythic & Comic Aspects of Quest i. 8 Unconsciously, like the novelist as a fool in his quest, Sancho is playing the eiron to his master's alazon.

2005 Social Forces 84 603 Unfortunately, if the alazon's self-deception continues even after his public humiliation, then the narrative tends to read as a tragic tale of hubris and lost opportunity.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	alazon
释义	alazonn. Brit. /ˈaləzɒn/, U.S. /ˈæləˌzɑn/ Origin: A borrowing from Greek. Etymon: Greek ἀλαζών. Etymology: < ancient Greek ἀλαζών boaster, perhaps < Ἀλαζῶνες (plural), the name of a Thracian tribe mentioned in Herodotus. Compare alazony n., eiron n.Compare earlier use in English as the name of a character in a play:a1635 T. Randolph Muses Looking-glasse iii. iv. 62 in Poems (1638) Such as Alazon is, use their own Tongues, While reall worth hears her own praise, not speaks it. Alazon is mentioned by the Latin author Plautus as the title of a Greek comedy. A stock character in ancient Greek comedy characterized by arrogance, misplaced self-confidence, and a failure to recognize irony. Hence in extended use: a character of this type. Contrasted with eiron n.See note at eiron n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > part or character > [noun] > specific character Robin Hood1473 wantonness1507 vice1552 pantaloon1592 iniquity1597 burratinea1637 scaramouch1662 Pierrot1726 gracioso1749 eiron1872 alazon1911 toby1946 1911 R. W. Bond Early Plays from Ital. Introd. p. xxvi The unpopular Spaniard quartered on unwilling Italian inhabitants is the usual representative of the Greek alazon or braggart. 1943 PMLA 58 27 His [sc. Richard III's] foil is not the stupid, over-weening alazon, of course, but the tragically helpless and simple people of England. 1957 Studies 46 77 Rhetoric or drama should have warned Joyce that Stephen the aesthetic alazon needed nothing so urgently as a correspondingly deft eiron. 1977 J. S. Fu Mythic & Comic Aspects of Quest i. 8 Unconsciously, like the novelist as a fool in his quest, Sancho is playing the eiron to his master's alazon. 2005 Social Forces 84 603 Unfortunately, if the alazon's self-deception continues even after his public humiliation, then the narrative tends to read as a tragic tale of hubris and lost opportunity. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1911
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