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present participle and gerund of attitudinize quotations examples
In dining with her brother and with the Dormers, two evenings before, Mrs. Dallow had been moved to exclaim that Peter and Nick knew the most extraordinary people. As regards Peter the attitudinizing girl and her mother now pointed that moral with sufficient vividness; so that there was little arrogance in taking a similar quality for granted in the conceited man at her elbow, who sat there as if he would be capable, from one moment to another, of leaning over the arm of her sofa.
1890, Henry James, The Tragic Muse
plural attitudinizings
The act of one who attitudinizes; affected posturing. quotations examples
With his "hatred of what was theatrical" (1:124) he is put off by the posturings and attitudinizings of the chief actors.
1990, Clyde de L. Ryals, A World of Possibilities: Romantic Irony in Victorian Literature