soliloquize
verbEtymology From soliloquy + -ize.
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Broadcasting, Drama, Dramaturgy, Entertainment, Film, Lifestyle, Media, Television, Theater Of a character: to perform a soliloquy, to talk to oneself.
- "Now, I am quite sure that our beautiful hostess has been making an assignation," soliloquised Charles, who, for want of something better to do, had been watching the various actions of the group in the principal chamber in the castle, […]1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXXIV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 276:
- I rubbed my hands with delight over my happy notion, and soliloquised aloud, "What a joy there is in going about doing good actions."1899, Knut Hamsun, “Part III”, in George Egerton [pseudonym; Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright], transl., Hunger […], London: Leonard Smithers and Co […], →OCLC, page 164:
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To think to oneself.
- Far up in the mountains he heard a lion roar. How much safer one was, he soliloquized, in the haunts of wild beasts than in the haunts of men.1913 June–December, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Through the Valley of the Shadow”, in The Return of Tarzan, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, […], published March 1915, →OCLC, page 132:
- Derived terms
- soliloquizer, soliloquizingly
- Related terms
- monologize