Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The science of character; the study of types, genesis, etc., of character; ethology.
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- noun psychology The study or attempted deduction of
character in individuals.
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Examples
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Plot summary, themes, characterology -- it's not sophisticated at all.
I'm Sorta Speechless Jes Battis 2008
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It culminates in an ethical characterology or philosophical anthropology in which passion and reason are properly ordered by sheer force of individual volition.
Asthmatic 2009
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Such a diatribe notwithstanding, what is of more significance in our context is Weber's obsession with a liberal characterology and civic education.
Asthmatic 2009
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Weber's own way was to address the problem of classical liberal characterology that was, in his view, being progressively undermined by the indiscriminate bureaucratization of modern society.
Asthmatic 2009
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It is also in this entrenched preoccupation with an ethical characterology under modern circumstances that we find the source of his enduring influences on twentieth-century political and social thought.
Asthmatic 2009
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And what they ` ll show is that the brain waves will actually switch to the opposite side of the brain when they ` re assessing psychometrize (ph), when they assess what an object, who it belongs to, and the characterology of the person that they ` re trying to assess.
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To say that Shakespearean subjectivity is the governing model for subjectivity in literature after Shakespeare is not to say, at least not to say in any simple way, that this is the only instance or type of characterology that can be discovered in literature after Shakespeare.
Yonder Shakespeare Fineman, Joel 1987
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This is why it is important to insist upon what I have called specifically literary exigencies that begin before and continue after Shakespeare, for such exigencies explain why Shakespearean characterology has established itself as something uniquely authoritative in the literary history that begins in the early modern period.
Yonder Shakespeare Fineman, Joel 1987
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It seems to me very significant that Dr. Southard should interest himself, as his paper leads one to judge he does, in such problems as Shand's somewhat abstract work, and should seek correlations with legal characterology like that of Roscoe Pound.
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That the important work of Klarges on characterology is not considered may be accounted for by the fact that there is not a single German reference given in the whole book.
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