Timonizeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Timon +‎ -ize, from the 5th-century BC person Timon of Athens (as described by Plutarch, Lucian, Aristophanes), possibly by way of William Shakespeare's play Timon of Athens (c. 1607). Used intransitively by William Darrell in his book The Gentleman Instructed (1713). Used transitively by Herman Melville in his novel Pierre (1852).

動詞

Timonize (三人称単数 現在形 Timonizes, 現在分詞 Timonizing, 過去形および過去分詞形 Timonized)

1. (intransitive) To behave as a misanthrope.
   • 1713, William Darrell, The Gentleman Instructed, 5th edition:^[1]

     I should be tempted to Timonize, and clap a Satyr upon our whole Species.

2. (transitive) To cause (someone) to slide into bitter misanthropy, into Timonism.
   • 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre: or, The Ambiguities, Harper & Brothers, page 348:

     And it may well be believed, that after the wonderful vital world-revelation so suddenly made to Pierre at the Meadows—a revelation which, at moments, in some certain things, fairly Timonized him—he had not failed to clutch with peculiar nervous detestation and contempt that ample parcel, containing the letters of his Biographico and other silly correspondents, which, in a less ferocious hour, he had filed away as curiosities.

   • 1983, Michael L. Ross, "Lawrence's letters", in Russell: the Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies, volume 3, number 1 (Summer 1983), page 58:

     Lawrence's progressive alienation from his countrymen and finally from humanity – as it were, the "Timonizing" process that overcame him – went hand in hand with his estrangement from Russell.

派生語

• Timonization
• Timonizing

関連する語

• Timonian
• Timonism
• Timonist

参照

• OED, "Timon [feat. Timonian, Timonism, Timonist, Timonize]" in the Oxford English Dictionary (reproduced in a post)
• SEG, "Timonize" in Thomas Lewis Owen Davies (supplement to James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps), A supplementary English glossary, 1881 (full text at Archive.org または p. 656 at Google Books)
• Notes:

1. ^ See OED.