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soliloquizing

soliloquizing is the present participle and gerund of soliloquize.

Meaning of soliloquize

Verb

soliloquize (third-person singular simple present soliloquizes, present participle soliloquizing, simple past and past participle soliloquized)

  1. (intransitive) 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
    Synonyms:
    monologuize
  2. (intransitive) 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

Noun

soliloquizing (plural soliloquizings)

  1. Something spoken in soliloquy.
    • The play opens with the soliloquizings of D'Ambois himself, who, bearing about with him a pretty lively impression of his own merits, finds himself neglected by the court and plunged in poverty and distress.1821, The Retrospective Review, page 338

Forms of soliloquizing

pluralsoliloquizings

Questions about soliloquizing

What does soliloquizing mean?
Soliloquizing means something spoken in soliloquy.
What is soliloquizing the present participle and gerund of?
Soliloquizing is the present participle and gerund of soliloquize.
What part of speech is soliloquizing?
Soliloquizing is a noun.
What is the plural of soliloquizing?
The plural of soliloquizing is soliloquizings.

Words near soliloquizing in the dictionary

  1. soliloquize
  2. soliloquized
  3. soliloquizer
  4. soliloquizers
  5. soliloquizes
  6. soliloquizing
  7. soliloquizingly
  8. soliloquizings
  9. soliloquy
  10. soliloquying
  11. solilunar

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