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vaguen
- /ˈveɪɡən/ US, UK
Sounds like vegan (one pronunciation), Vegan · Rhymes with -eɪɡən
Where it comes from
From vague + -en (suffix forming transitive verbs from adjectives, meaning ‘to make [adjective]’), coined by Irish writer Samuel Beckett (1906–1989), apparently first in a manuscript note to himself on an initial typescript of his play Happy Days (1961).
verb vaguens · vaguening · vaguened
- To make (something) vague or more vague; to blur, to obscure. [Rosemary] Pountney sees the term ‘vaguen’ in the play’s second typescript as ‘explicit testimony to [Samuel] Beckett’s policy of “vaguening” the later drafts of his plays’ (1988: 149).
- To become (more) vague; to blur. As both artists [Samuel Beckett and Joseph Mallord William Turner] developed, their imagery vaguened. The result is imagery hazened, a studied, a crafted indistinction. Beckett thus situates himself (and his art) in the midst of such a late-modernist or early postmodernist ethos, exploring the issue
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