Platitudinization vs Platitudinize - What's the difference?
platitudinization | platitudinize | Derived terms |
To utter one or more platitudes; to make obvious, trivial, or remarks concerning a topic.
* 1894 July 24, "
* 1928 , , As a Thief in the Night (2001 House of Stratus edition), ISBN 9780755103478,
* 2008 Feb. 20, Maxie Zeus, "
To express as or reduce to one or more s or truisms.
* 1842 , , "On the Perennial and the Ephemeral in Judaism" in The Jewish Philosophy Reader'' (2000), edited by Daniel H. Frank ''et al. , ISBN 9780415168601,
* 1962 , , Letting Go (1997 Random House edition), ISBN 9780679764175 [http://books.google.ca/books?id=1Bp4zGkEDRcC&dq=platitudinized+subject%3A%22fiction%22&q=%22+she+platitudinized%22#v=snippet&q=%22%20she%20platitudinized%22&f=false]:
* 2008 April 25, , "
Platitudinization is a derived term of platitudinize.
As a verb platitudinize is
to utter one or more platitudes; to make obvious, trivial, or remarks concerning a topic.platitudinization
Not English
Platitudinization has no English definition. It may be misspelled.platitudinize
English
Alternative forms
* platitudiseVerb
An Undenominational Mission: Outspokenness in the Pulpit," The Age (Australia), p. 5 (retrieved 7 Oct 2011):
- He does not attempt lofty flights of eloquence or try to disguise thought under ponderous platitudinising sentences.
p. 139:
- If we keep our knowledge strictly to ourselves we know exactly how we stand, and that if there has been any leakage, it had been from some other source. But I need not platitudinize to an experienced and learned counsel.
Glass Fleet," www.tunezone.net (retrieved 7 Oct 2011):
- The people in this show don't talk like normal people—they lecture, they argue, they negotiate, they strategize, they philosophize, they platitudinize , they deliver speeches about destiny, liberty, and bravery.
p. 402:
- Mendelssohn had misunderstood, platitudinized , and misinterpreted the holy concept of revelation.
- “It's better to have to struggle when you're young, I think, than when you're older,” she platitudinized .
The White House race is a catalogue of misspeaking," The Guardian (UK) (retrieved 7 Oct 2011):
- A modern campaign, not just in America, is so fine-tuned, so honed and platitudinised , that mistakes are the only way of bringing it into focus.
