protagonize
English
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editprotagonize (third-person singular simple present protagonizes, present participle protagonizing, simple past and past participle protagonized)
- (transitive) To set up as the protagonist, or most significant character or entity.
- 2018, Jennifer Markides, Laura Forsythe, Looking Back and Living Forward: Indigenous Research Rising Up, page 41:
- Our project should be to protagonize ourselves, and yet, that project presents certain problems.
- 2020, Randal Joy Thompson, Proleptic Leadership on the Commons, page 75:
- Self-protagonizing does not mean putting self first, nor maximizing self-gain. Rather, it expresses a certain sense of freedom […]
- (transitive) To be the protagonist, or most significant character or entity (of a literary work, etc.).
- 2019 October 14, María Soledad Paz-Mackay, Omar Rodriguez, Politics of Children in Latin American Cinema[1], Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 177:
- For the sake of convenience, the name “Ernesto [Guevara]” will refer to the young medical student who protagonizes The Motorcycle Diaries (henceforth, Motorcycle Diaries).
Portuguese
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editprotagonize
- inflection of protagonizar: