Timonise vs Timonize - What's the difference?
timonise | timonize | Alternative forms |
* 1847 , (Horace Smith), (The New Monthly Magazine)'':(Horace Smith) (unsigned), "A Graybeard's Gossip about His Literary Acquaintance. No. V", ''(The New Monthly Magazine)'', July 1847, Vol. 80, p. 295; repr. ''The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, 1847, Part the Second (May-July 1847), London: Chapman and Hall, 1847, p.
To behave as a misanthrope.
* 1713 , , The Gentleman Instructed , 5th edition:See OED.
To cause (someone) to slide into bitter misanthropy, into Timonism.
* 1852 , , Harper & Brothers,
* 1983 , Michael L. Ross, "
English eponyms
Timonise is an alternative form of timonize.
As verbs the difference between timonise and timonize
is that timonise is while timonize is to behave as a misanthrope.timonise
English
Verb
(Timonis)295 at Google Books.
- Perchance some act of individual ingratitude may have further helped to ''Timonise'' his spirit;
References
timonize
English
Alternative forms
* TimoniseVerb
(Timoniz)- I should be tempted to Timonize , and clap a Satyr upon our whole Species.
page 348:
- And it may well be believed, that after the wonderful vital world-revelation so suddenly made to Pierre at the Meadows—a revelation which, at moments, in some certain things, fairly Timonized him—he had not failed to clutch with peculiar nervous detestation and contempt that ample parcel, containing the letters of his Biographico and other silly correspondents, which, in a less ferocious hour, he had filed away as curiosities.
Lawrence's letters", in Russell: the Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies , volume 3, number 1 (Summer 1983), page 58:
- Lawrence's progressive alienation from his countrymen and finally from humanity – as it were, the "Timonizing " process that overcame him – went hand in hand with his estrangement from Russell.
Derived terms
* Timonization * TimonizingReferences
* OED, "Timon [feat. Timonian, Timonism, Timonist, Timonize]" in the(reproduced in a post)* SEG, "Timonize" in Thomas Lewis Owen Davies (supplement to James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps), A supplementary English glossary , 1881 (
full text at Archive.org] or [http://books.google.com/books?id=6YkMAQAAIAAJ&q=timonize p. 656 at Google Books) * Notes: