monologuize

English

Alternative forms

• monologuise

Etymology

monologue +‎ -ize

Verb

monologuize (third-person singular simple present monologuizes, present participle monologuizing, simple past and past participle monologuized)

1. (intransitive) To give a monologue; to soliloquize.
   • 1870, Charles Reade, Put Yourself in His Place, page 168:

     He kept the ball always going, but did not monologuize, except when he was appealed to as a judge, and then did it with a mellow grace that no man can learn without Natures aid.

   • 1976, Jagdish Chander, Narindar Singh Pradhan, Studies in American Literature: Essays in Honour of William Mulder, page 89:

     In The Sound and the Fury, the beautiful reality of Caddy's character might be brought home to us by that means without actually making her monologuize.

   • 1990, The New Leader, page 16:

     In addition, Jarrell's one work for the stage was a version of Chekhov's The Three Sisters, a play whose three deeply frustrated women monologuize copiously.

   • 1994, Dongho Sohn, Dilemma of Representation in Modern Theater, page 119:

     The stage is occupied but not in the true sense. The characters do not like to act but contemplate, or monologuize.

2. (transitive) To make into a monologue.
   • 1980, Dispositio - Issues 13-18, page 62:

     On the phenomenic level, of course, a dialogue can "monologuize" itself in the same way that a monologue can acquire features of "latent dialogue," etc. (see J. Mukafovsky, 1940a: 146-153);

   • 1985, Hetty Clews, The only teller: readings in the monologue novel, page 44:

     At this point the thoughts of the boy are couched in the language of the boy — they are monologuized.

   • 2016, Emily Van Buskirk, Lydia Ginzburg's Prose: Reality in Search of Literature, page 8:

     Here begins the essence of literary reflection, a “monologuized” view of the world (Proust), which I find probably the closest.