Terms vs Tragicized - What's the difference?
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(tragicize)
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 and sun, air and virtue! for I will tragicize a bit), not the Hellespont to yoke, but to level the steep.
To turn (someone or something) into tragedy; to make tragic.
*1972 , Mohan Singh Uberoi, I Believe , p. 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 , p. 156:
*:Fired and, in effect, executed too, Phillip Loeb had to be tragicized , like the Rosenbergs […].