Timonize
构词拆解
- -ize
- Used to form verbs from nouns or adjectives, especially similative verbs
词源说明
From Timon + -ize, after the 5th-century-BCE person Timon of Athens (as described by Plutarch, Lucian, and Aristophanes), possibly by way of William Shakespeare's play Timon of Athens (c. 1607). Used intransitively by William Darrell in his book The Gentleman Instructed (1713), and transitively by Herman Melville in his novel Pierre (1852).
释义
动词verb
- 1intransitiveTo behave as a misanthrope.
- 2transitiveTo cause (someone) to slide into bitter misanthropy, into Timonism.