Timonistとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaɪmənɪst/

名詞

Timonist (複数形 Timonists)

1. A sort of bitter misanthrope related to Timonism, like Timon of Athens.
   • 1590, Robert Greene, Greene's Mourning Garment:^[1]

     Yet was he not [...] such a Timonist, but hee would familiarly conuerse with his friends. [sic]

   • 1601 (first performance), Thomas Dekker, Satiro-mastix. Or The Untrussing of the Humorous Poet. […], London: […] [Edward Allde] for Edward White, […], published 1602, →OCLC, signature L3, recto:

     I did it to retyre me from the vvorld; / And turne my Muſe into a Timoniſt, […]

   • 1988, Paul Ollswang, "Cynicism":^[2]

     Cynicism is often contrasted with "Timonism" (cf. Shakespeare's Timon of Athens). Cynics saw what people could be & were angered by what they had become; Timonists felt humans were hopelessly stupid & uncaring by nature & so saw no hope for change.

形容詞

Timonist (comparative more Timonist, superlative most Timonist)

1. Of a form of bitter misanthropy related to Timonism, like Timon of Athens.
   • 1988, Maurice Charney, Hamlet's fictions:^[3]

     Marston poses as the Timonist malcontent satirist ready to excoriate the world for its follies.

同意語

• Timonean
• Timonian

関連する語

• Timonism
• Timonize

参照

• OED, "Timon [feat. Timonian, Timonism, Timonist, Timonize]" in the Oxford English Dictionary (reproduced in a post)
• SEG, "Timonist" 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)
• WN, "Timonist" in Wordnik
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