histrionism
Étymologie
[modifier le wikicode]- Du latin histrio (« acteur »)
Nom commun
[modifier le wikicode]histrionism
- Histrionisme.
- For the faith in an Invisible, Unnameable, Godlike, present everywhere in all that we see and work and suffer, is the essence of all faith whatsoever; and that once denied, or still worse, asserted with lips only, and out of bound prayerbooks only, what other thing remains believable? That Cant well-ordered is marketable Cant; that Heroism means gas-lighted Histrionism […] — (Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, livre 3, chapitre II, Gospel of Mammonism — 1843)