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Definition of Attitudinising
1. attitudinise [v] - See also: attitudinise
Lexicographical Neighbors of Attitudinising
Literary usage of Attitudinising
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Guy Fawkes; or, The gunpowder treason by William Harrison Ainsworth (1850)
"But nothing of all this graceful attitudinising and profuse exhibition of fine
forms was attended to by the king or his party. The nautch-girls danced, ..."
2. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1874)
"The Woodcutter is going to have the amusement all to himself. He takes out a
knife, intending to stab Raymond. But the family instinct for attitudinising is ..."
3. Their Day in Court by Percival Pollard (1909)
"In artistic attitudinising there are several sorts. There was the posturing of
Oscar Wilde. There was the Tophat Attitude of the charlatans and the prigs. ..."
4. Fraser's Magazine by Thomas Carlyle (1866)
"... he entered on attitudinising very seriously, for he believed it to be the
essential thing in ruling men. Little of a Frenchman, he betrayed in his most ..."
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