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Meaning of monologuize | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C1

Definitions

  1. To give a monologue; to soliloquize.
    intransitive
  2. To make into a monologue.
    transitive

Examples

“He kept the ball always going, but did not monologuize, except when he was appealed to as a judge, and then did it with a mellow grace that no man can learn without Natures aid.”
“In The Sound and the Fury, the beautiful reality of Caddy's character might be brought home to us by that means without actually making her monologuize.”
“In addition, Jarrell's one work for the stage was a version of Chekhov's The Three Sisters, a play whose three deeply frustrated women monologuize copiously.”
“The stage is occupied but not in the true sense. The characters do not like to act but contemplate, or monologuize.”
“On the phenomenic level, of course, a dialogue can "monologuize" itself in the same way that a monologue can acquire features of "latent dialogue," etc. (see J. Mukafovsky, 1940a: 146-153);”
“At this point the thoughts of the boy are couched in the language of the boy — they are monologuized.”
“Here begins the essence of literary reflection, a “monologuized” view of the world (Proust), which I find probably the closest.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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