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Webster 1913 Edition

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Adj.

[L.

histrionicus

: cf. F.

histrionique

. See

Of or relating to the stage or a stageplayer; befitting a theatre; theatrical.

Affectedly dramatic; insincerely emotional; – sometimes used in a bad sense.

–

Hisˊtri-on′ic-al-ly

adv.

Tainted with false and

histrionic

feeling.

De Quincey.

histrionical ‎(comparative more histrionical, superlative most histrionical)