单词 | tragedizing |
释义 | tragedizingn.ΚΠ 1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 47 The nurse..cowring on the backeside whiles these things were a tragedizing. 2. The art or occupation of a tragic actor. Also: the action of performing like a tragic actor; grandiose or melodramatic speech or behaviour. Cf. tragedize v. 1b. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > manifestation of emotion > [noun] > outward exhibition > melodramatic behaviour or occurrences tragedizing1752 melodrama1814 melodrame1814 soap opera1944 1752 Monthly Rev. Apr. 315 This gentleman's tragedizing talents are so very conspicuous. 1780 T. Francklin tr. Lucian Wks. I. 390 Several of them..fell insensibly into the tragedizing vein. 1781 T. Francklin tr. Lucian Wks. (new ed.) II. 267 Suddenly taken with a fit of tragedizing. 1813 Theatr. Inquisitor 2 182 Ye fair, an Amateur before you view, Whose love of tragedising sprung from you. 1835 New Monthly Mag. Sept. 34 Liston, during his tragedizing, applied to Stephen Kemble, the manager, for an increase of salary. 2001 Evening News (Edinb.) (Nexis) 11 June 13 Excessive and mawkish ‘tragedising’ does nothing to help her or others. 3. = tragedization n. rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > [noun] > dramatization dramatization1796 tragedization1796 dramatizing1808 dramatism1834 tragedizinga1849 theatricalization1875 a1849 H. Coleridge Ess. & Marginalia (1851) II. 177 Modern critics, aping the nicety of Athens, which forbade the tragedising of recent history, may think [etc.]. 1968 D. Gerould & C.S. Durer tr. S. I. Witkiewicz Mother i. in Mother & Other Unsavoury Plays 127 Leon Wouldn't it be better to stop all these endless discussions and accept our lives for what they are? Mother..I know, I know—you call this the tragedizing of life. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1599 |
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