Meaning of tragicize | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To speak or write in the manner of a tragedy; to adopt a grandiloquent style.
   obsolete, rare
2. To turn (someone or something) into tragedy; to make tragic.
   rare

Examples

“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 and sun, air and virtue! for I will tragicize a bit), not the Hellespont to yoke, but to level the steep.”

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

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

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