Timonize vs Timonean - What's the difference?
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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, "
Of a form of bitter misanthropy related to Timonism, like (Timon of Athens).
* ~1710-1722 , (John Toland), undated letter:(John Toland) (1670–1722), "To Mrs. ***", undated letter (est. 1710-1722 due to content: after his 1710 return to London and retirement, before his 1722 death); repr. in (Pierre des Maizeaux) (ed., aka "Pierre Desmaizeaux"), A Collection of Several Pieces of Mr. John Toland , 2 vols., Vol. 2, London: printed for J. Peele, 1726, p.
* 1766 , (Thomas Amory), The Life of John Buncle, Vol. II'':(Thomas Amory) (uncredited), ''The Life of John Buncle, Esq; Containing Various Observations and Reflections, Made in Several Parts of the World, and Many Extraordinary Relations. Vol. II , London: printed for J. Johnson and B. Davenport, 1766, section VII, §8 (item 91 in the TOC, "The History of Claudius Hobart, a recluse"), p.
* 1849 , (Herman Melville), (Mardi)'':(Herman Melville), ''(Mardi): And a Voyage Thither , 1849, Vol. II, Chapter LXX "They Land at Hooloomooloo"; quoted from
Pertaining or related to (Timon of Phlius), his life, works, style, or ideas.
* 2009 , Dee L. Clayman, Timon of Phlius'':Dee L. Clayman, ''Timon of Phlius: Pyrrhonism into Poetry , Walter de Gruyter, 2009, ISBN 978-3110220803, Chapter 5 "Timon's Reception in Hellenistic Literature", p.
Timonize is a related term of timonean.
As a verb timonize
is to behave as a misanthrope.As an adjective timonean is
of a form of bitter misanthropy related to timonism, like (timon of athens) or timonean can be pertaining or related to (timon of phlius), his life, works, style, or ideas.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:
timonean
English
Etymology 1
(as described by Plutarch, Lucian, Aristophanes), possibly by way of (William Shakespeare)'s play (Timon of Athens)'' (c. 1607). Used by (John Toland) in a letter (c. 1710-1722), apparently as a rare word or neologism. Used by (Thomas Amory) in ''The Life of John Buncle, Vol. II (1766), as a regular word.Adjective
(en adjective)412 at Google Books.
- Solitude, on the contrary, not only deprives us of both the past and the future, but always inclines the present hour to joyless melancholy, which sooner or later ends in something intractable, Timonean , (pardon the word) or perhaps more fatal.
236 at Google Books.
- Such was the account Mr. ''Hobart'' gave me of himself, (which made me admire him much, as he was but fifty then) and to convince me his temper had nothing Timonean or unsocial in it from his solitary life, he requested I would dine with him.
the 1864 reprint at Gutenberg.org.
- And so in love with his Timonean solitude was Rozoko, that it needed many bribes and bland persuasions, to induce him to desert his mossy, hillside, misanthropic cave, for the distracting tumult of a court.
Synonyms
* Timonian * TimonistEtymology 2
, from a 3rd-century BC disciple of Pyrrho, Skeptic philosopher and satirist (Timon of Phlius) (c. 320 – c. 230 BC).Adjective
(en adjective)148 at Google Books.
- Since only a small percentage of Timon's oeuvre has survived and much of Callimachus' work is equally fragmentary there are no direct quotes or precise allusions, but it is possible to discern some features of Callimachus' work that seem remarkably Timonean .