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Definition of Attitudinise
1. Verb. Assume certain affected attitudes.
Generic synonyms: Pose, Posture
Derivative terms: Attitude, Attitude, Attitude
Definition of Attitudinise
1. Verb. (alternative spelling of attitudinize) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Attitudinise
1. [v -NISED, -NISING, -NISES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Attitudinise
Literary usage of Attitudinise
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. by James Boswell (1901)
"He called once to a gentleman * who had offended him in that point, " Don't
attitudinise." And when another gentleman thought he was giving additional force ..."
2. The Contemporary Review (1898)
"... and characteristics are to be taken into account in these international
questions, but those of the vulgar politicians who attitudinise in the tribune, ..."
3. History of English Literature by Hippolyte Taine (1897)
"He does not attitudinise majestically in the character of a restorer of science;
he does not declare, like your Germans, that his book will open up a new ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1888)
"A man can hardly attitudinise with an orange, and catch it on a lively fork, for
the benefit of grown-up people, sitting solemnly round, conversing in ..."
5. Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the by James Boswell, George Birkbeck Norman Hill (1891)
"'Don't attitudinise,' iv. 373. ATTORNEY. ' Now it is not necessary to know our
thoughts to tell that an attorney will sometimes do nothing,' iii. ..."
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