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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to or of the nature of monologue; fond of monologue.

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Examples

  • Note that frequency can be citational or monological, that is, it can come from circulation or from self-repetition.

    I cite 2009

  • July 30th, 2009 at 7: 09 pm with global supplies of oil peaking we are now at the beginning of energy descent. this means industrialised oil-based factory farms will collapse as a system. this is great for animals, but not great for monological scientists who keep inventing psuedo-green technology that relies upon the continuation of brown tech industries. we have to design new settlements based on low-energy consumption. permaculture addresses all these things.

    Chicken Feathers May Fuel Hydrogen Cars in the Future | Inhabitat 2009

  • Gray may not have invented the monological art, but he certainly did it better than anyone else who tried.

    Chuck Klosterman on Media and Culture Chuck Klosterman 2010

  • Gray may not have invented the monological art, but he certainly did it better than anyone else who tried.

    Chuck Klosterman on Media and Culture Chuck Klosterman 2010

  • Gray may not have invented the monological art, but he certainly did it better than anyone else who tried.

    Chuck Klosterman on Media and Culture Chuck Klosterman 2010

  • His renewal of the Kantian heritage has something in common with the post-Kantian tactic of delegating to non-philosophical discourses an authority no longer sustainable within the monological meta-language traditionally attributed to philosophy.

    Post-Secular Conviviality 2008

  • Decisionism—as exemplified by Carl Schmitt—departs from a monological concept of subjectivity and postulates a prediscursive kernel that acts as the nucleus of decisions, without reference to ethical norms.

    enowning enowning 2009

  • Decisionism—as exemplified by Carl Schmitt—departs from a monological concept of subjectivity and postulates a prediscursive kernel that acts as the nucleus of decisions, without reference to ethical norms.

    Archive 2009-04-01 enowning 2009

  • Anyway, so for a therapist, it is obviously desirable to be second tier and no longer embedded in the monological views of the first tier value systems and worldviews.

    Value Systems in Psychotherapy William Harryman 2009

  • Whereas talk radio, with its adulatory “reader call-ins” that do nothing to modulate its monological format and leader-worship, is better suited to Republicans.

    Matthew Yglesias » Evidence 2007

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