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Timonization is a derived term of timonize.


As a noun timonization

is the transformation of someone into a bitter misanthrope, a timonist, like (timon of athens).

As a verb timonize is

to behave as a misanthrope.

timonization

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The transformation of someone into a bitter misanthrope, a Timonist, like (Timon of Athens).
  • * 1965 , Raymond Ronald Long, The Hidden Sun'':Raymond Ronald Long, ''The Hidden Sun: a study of the influence of Shakespeare on the creative imagination of Herman Meville , University of California, 1965, p. 157 at Google Books.
    • Among these lesser tragic influences the misanthropic concept of Timonization which seemed to obsess Melville so, and which has its origin in Shakespeare's ''Timon of Athens'', is mentioned twice in ''Pierre'' [...]
  • * 1996 , Christopher Sten, The Weaver-God, He Weaves'':Christopher Sten, ''The Weaver-God, He Weaves: Melville and the poetics of the novel'', Kent State University Press, 1996, ISBN 0873385373, Chapter Seven "The Divided Self: ''Pierre as Psychological Novel", p. 240 at Google Books.
    • [The second half of Melville's ''Pierre''] describes his growing misanthropy, his "Timonization " [...]

    Synonyms

    * Timonizing

    References

    timonize

    English

    Alternative forms

    * Timonise

    Verb

    (Timoniz)
  • To behave as a misanthrope.
  • * 1713 , , The Gentleman Instructed , 5th edition:See OED.
    • I should be tempted to Timonize , and clap a Satyr upon our whole Species.
  • To cause (someone) to slide into bitter misanthropy, into Timonism.
  • * 1852 , , Harper & Brothers, 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.
  • * 1983 , Michael L. Ross, " 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 * Timonizing

    Related terms

    * Timonian * Timonism * Timonist

    References

    * 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: English eponyms