attitudinise

English

Etymology

From Italian attitudine (“attitude, pose, posture”) + English ise (a variant of -ize (suffix forming verbs meaning ‘to do [something denoted by the word to which it is attached]’)): see further at attitudinize.

Verb

attitudinise (third-person singular simple present attitudinises, present participle attitudinising, simple past and past participle attitudinised)

1. Non-Oxford British English standard form of attitudinize.
   • 1879, James Anthony Froude, chapter XIV, in Cæsar: A Sketch, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 194:

     In every line that he wrote Cicero was attitudinising for posterity, or reflecting on the effect of his conduct upon his interests or his reputation.

   • 1901, Joseph Conrad, Ford M. Hueffer [i.e., Ford Madox Ford], chapter 11, in The Inheritors: An Extravagant Story, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC, page 178:

     Radet was a cadaverous, weather-worn, passion-worn individual, badger-grey, and worked up into a grotesquely attitudinised fury of injured self-esteem

     An adjective use.

Derived terms

• attitudinisation
• attitudiniser
• attitudinising (adjective, noun)