单词 | tragicize |
释义 | † tragicizev. Obsolete. rare. intransitive. To speak or write in a grandiloquent tragic style. Cf. tragedize v. 1b. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > use ornate language [verb (intransitive)] > use lofty or grandiloquent style tragedize1755 tragicize1840 rotundify1841 1840 J. H. Newman Church of Fathers viii. 129 O earth and sun, air and virtue! for I will tragicize a bit. 1896 K. P. Wormeley tr. H. de Balzac Lost Illusions in La Comédie Humaine XVI. ii. 44 She made the mistake of using long sentences larded with magniloquent words... She began to analyze, synthesize, individualize, poetize, dramatize, angelicize, and tragicize [Fr. tragiquer],—for we must for a moment violate language to express the extravagance of which some women are capable. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < v.1840 |
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