tragicizeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹæd͡ʒɪsaɪz/

動詞

tragicize (三人称単数 現在形 tragicizes, 現在分詞 tragicizing, 過去形および過去分詞形 tragicized)

1. (obsolete, rare) To speak or write in the manner of a tragedy; to adopt a grandiloquent style.
   • 1840, John Henry Newman, The Church of the Fathers, VIII:

     How shall I omit those ungardenlike gardens, void of pot-herbs? or the Augean store, which we cleared out and spread over them; what time we worked the hillside plough, vine-planter I, and awful you, with this neck and hands, which still bear the marks of the toil (O earth かつ sun, air かつ virtue! for I will tragicize a bit), not the Hellespont to yoke, but to level the steep.

2. (rare) To turn (someone または something) into tragedy; to make tragic.
   • 1972, Mohan Singh Uberoi, I Believe, page 19:

     I like to be tragic, I like to be funny / For in less than a century / Comic will have been tragicized / Tragedy comicalized.

   • 2009, Joseph Litvak, The Un-Americans: Jews, the Blacklist, and Stoolpigeon Culture, page 156:

     Fired and, in effect, executed too, Phillip Loeb had to be tragicized, like the Rosenbergs […].