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語源

fustian +‎ -ize

動詞

fustianize (三人称単数 現在形 fustianizes, 現在分詞 fustianizing, 過去形および過去分詞形 fustianized)

1. (intransitive, dated) To write or utter pretentious statements.
   • a. 1894, Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Poet's Lot

     What is a poet's love? — / To write a girl a sonnet, / To get a ring, or some such thing, / And fustianize upon it.

   • 1915, Marketing Communications (volume 92, page 11)

     When they talk war they amuse the soldier and when they fustianize about advertising, they make such statements as, “Advertising Is Literature" or “Advertising is the greatest force in modern business," which it is not.