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monologuize en · VERB

Etymology

From monologue + -ize.

Meanings

1. (intransitive) To give a monologue; to soliloquize.
   • In The Sound and the Fury, the beautiful reality of Caddy's character might be brought home to us by that means without actually making her monologuize. 1976, Jagdish Chander, Narindar Singh Pradhan, Studies in American Literature: Essays in Honour of William Mulder, page 89:
   • He kept the ball always going, but did not monologuize, except when he was appealed to as a judge, and then did it with a mellow grace that no man can learn without Natures aid. 1870, Charles Reade, Put Yourself in His Place, page 168:
   • In addition, Jarrell's one work for the stage was a version of Chekhov's The Three Sisters, a play whose three deeply frustrated women monologuize copiously. 1990, The New Leader, page 16:
   • The stage is occupied but not in the true sense. The characters do not like to act but contemplate, or monologuize. 1994, Dongho Sohn, Dilemma of Representation in Modern Theater, page 119:
2. (transitive) To make into a monologue.
   • At this point the thoughts of the boy are couched in the language of the boy — they are monologuized. 1985, Hetty Clews, The only teller: readings in the monologue novel, page 44:
   • Here begins the essence of literary reflection, a “monologuized” view of the world (Proust), which I find probably the closest. 2016, Emily Van Buskirk, Lydia Ginzburg's Prose: Reality in Search of Literature, page 8:
   • On the phenomenic level, of course, a dialogue can "monologuize" itself in the same way that a monologue can acquire features of "latent dialogue," etc. (see J. Mukafovsky, 1940a: 146-153); 1980, Dispositio - Issues 13-18, page 62:

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