单词 | raisonneur |
释义 | raisonneurn. 1. A thinker; a person who thinks or reasons. Sometimes depreciative. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > thought > [noun] > one who thinks thinker1435 minder1584 thought-catcher1584 raisonneur1814 cogitator1834 thought-maker1841 noodler1955 maître à penser1959 1814 R. T. Wilson Private Diary 28 Jan. (1861) II. 304 I am really..the most unfortunately prejudiced raisonneur in Europe. 1899 Philos. Rev. 8 277 Hume is a shallow raisonneur, narrow-minded, full of hate both for religion and science. 1938 M. Demiashkevich National Mind v. 233 The General, a very brilliant military raisonneur, however inapt on the field of battle. 1950 E. 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’. 2006 Los Angeles Times (Electronic ed.) 12 Nov. r6 There is..certainly no 21st century raisonneur more openly scornful of his religious adversaries. 2. A character in a play or other work who expresses the author's message, point of view, or philosophy. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > part or character > [noun] > types of part or character underpart1679 persona muta1714 travesty1732 soubrette1753 old man1762 small part?1774 breeches-part1779 character part1811 fat1812 chambermaida1828 fool?1835 raisonneur1845 ingénue1848 villain of the piece1854 stock character1864 feeder1866 satirette1870 character role1871 travesty1887 thinking part1890 walk-on1902 cardboard cutout1906 bit1926 good guy1928 feed1929 bad guy1932 goody1934 walkthrough1935 narrator1941 cameo1950 black hat1959 1845 Littell's Living Age 13 Sept. 529/2 The Raisonneur, as he is called in France..is the spirit of intelligent and refined criticism, and represents the intervention of the author in his own works. 1859 N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 213 Bordognon, the satirical character of the piece,—the raisonneur, as it is technically called. 1903 Beerbohm in Sat. Rev. 5 Dec. 700/2 There is an old man [in Gorki's Lower Depths]..in whom we dimly descry a ‘raisonneur’. 1959 Listener 29 Oct. 749/1 He is clearly introduced as the play's raisonneur, the doughty exponent of a radical viewpoint. 1997 Jrnl. Southern Afr. Stud. 23 578 Willie, the raisonneur of the drama, who comes to see his own indifference as a moral outrage. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). raisonneurv. intransitive. To act as a raisonneur.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1963 P. G. Wodehouse 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?’ This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1814v.1963 |
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