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attitudinise en · VERB

Etymology

From Italian attitudine + -ise, from Latin aptitūdin- + -ise, from oblique stem of Latin aptitūdō, from aptus + -tūdō. By surface analysis, attitude + -ise.

Meanings

1. (British, English, Non-Oxford, alt-of, standard) Non-Oxford British English standard form of attitudinize.
   alt of attitudinize
   • In every line that he wrote Cicero was attitudinising for posterity, or reflecting on the effect of his conduct upon his interests or his reputation. 1879, James Anthony Froude, chapter XIV, in Cæsar: A Sketch, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 194:
   • Radet was a cadaverous, weather-worn, passion-worn individual, badger-grey, and worked up into a grotesquely attitudinised fury of injured self-esteem 1901, Joseph Conrad, Ford M. Hueffer [i.e., Ford Madox Ford], chapter 11, in The Inheritors: An Extravagant Story, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC, page 178:

Forms

Deriveds

attitudiniser · attitudinising · attitudinisation