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Definition of Monologists
1. monologist [n] - See also: monologist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Monologists
Literary usage of Monologists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire (1843)
"Our learned jurisconsults and de- monologists admit both the one and the other.
It is pretended that Satan, always on the alert, inspires young ladies and ..."
2. Mechanism in Thought and Morals: An Address Delivered Before the Phi Beta by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1871)
"... monologists who had pretended to write the history of human nature, with a
voice that touched the heart as no other had done since the Scotch peasant ..."
3. Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1910)
"... and his other monologists leave nothing in doubt; but to this lucidity I find
a notable exception in some verses in " Men and Women. ..."
4. Shakespeare's Theater by Ashley Horace Thorndike (1916)
"... pleased with our vaudevilles, monologists, our college debates, our acrobatic
revivalists, our stump speakers, and our Chautauquan orators. ..."
5. Poets of America by Edmund Clarence Stedman (1885)
"In fine, the Autocrat, if not profound, is always acute, — the liveliest of
monologists, and altogether too game to be taken at a disadvantage within his ..."
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