monotonist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monotonists
Etymology: From monotony + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: If I ruin such a virtue, sayest thou!—Eternal monotonist!—Again; the most immaculate virtue may be ruined by men who have no regard to their honour, and who make a jest of the most solemn oaths, &c. What must be the virtue that will be ruined without oaths?
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:
text: and those who will be honest enough will own, as I imagine, the Homer has few beauties; his slumbers long and fequent, and notwithstanding his fifteen hundred commentators and translators, he is a monotonist, verbose, and a surfeiting describer.
ref: 1786, Louis-Sébastien Mercier, The Nightcap: In Two Volumes - Volume 1, page 173:
text: Happy to escape the formal monotonist, she thanked the Countess with a grateful tear, and reluctantly leaving her to the tedious repetition of dull apothegms and grave declamations, felt a transient relief in the liberty of reflection, […]
ref: 1795, Anna Maria Mackenzie, Mysteries elucidated, page 118:
glosses: One who talks in the same strain or on the same subject until weariness is produced.
examples: text: If read with propriety, it will soon correct the monotonist of that sameness of tone, which so disgusts in most common readers, and with which no person can ever reasonably expect to give pleasure to those who are so unfortunate as to be his hearers ,
ref: 1817, Daniel Staniford, The Art of Reading, page 211:
text: I could chide thee now As vexed Apollo some monotonist That will but finger in one mode alone, And learn no other.
ref: 1885, John Todhunter, Helena in Troas, page 73:
text: Milton's management of his angels and evils proves as much as anything in the poem the versatility of his genious, the delicacy of his discrimination of character, that Shakespearean quality in him which has been so much over-looked. […] No mere monotonist could have succeeded in it .
ref: 1903, Testimonies and Criticisms Relating to the Life and Works of John Milton, page 189:
text: In these first lyrics he disclosed the eye of monotonist and etcher for the beauty of Nature.
ref: 2022, John Daniel Logan, Donald G. French, Highways of Canadian Literature:
topics: art
arts
glosses: One whose work is monochromatic or characterized by sameness.
examples: text: I don't wish to run my head up against a stone wall. I mean to turn into a British 'monotonist;' and after Parliament meets I can go up to London.
ref: 1871, Charlotte Louisa Hawkins Dempster, Véra, page 168:
text: No dying in debt at home in a bed that would wind up in a high-tourist attraction, just because one was a monotonist didn't mean everything always had to be The Same, The Same, The Same...
ref: 2002, J. Lilly, The Last Carnival, page 277:
text: Her thoughts were interrupted by the woman sitting across from her. "You're not a monotonist, are you? ".
ref: 2020, Fiona Davis, The Lions of Fifth Avenue, page 110:
glosses: A woman who is focussed solely on her role as wife and mother; a tradwife.
examples: text: The monotonist perspective maintains that the purpose of the corporation is the legal, short-term maximization of shareholder wealth (Friedman 2002). From the monotonist perspective, responsible corporate board governance requires that board members eschew any extra-shareholder considerations in decision making as reflecting inappropriate social political or cultural influences, possible violations of innate property rights, or even subterfuges that would allow top managers to act in furtherance of their own interests to the detriment of aggregate investor interests.
ref: 2012, W. Amann, A. Stachowicz-Stanusch, Integrity in Organizations, page 197:
text: Private benefit corporations (as opposed to B corporations — public benefit corporations) under the monotonist rubric have secured investor wealth but also have injured many stakeholders through the abusive use of power from the unlimited accumulation of financial assets without legal liability (Korten 2010; Turnbull 2002).
ref: 2013, Joseph A. Petrick, “Humanistic Management and North American Business Ethics”, in S. Khan, W. Amann, editor, World Humanism, page 39:
text: The practical implication of this for Corporate Governance is that greater presence of independent non-executive directors on the Board may mean better protection of the interests of the shareholders, if the author assumes the monotonist's view, and of all stakeholders if the author assumes the pluralist's view.
ref: 2016, Ismail Adelopo, Auditor Independence, page 181:
qualifier: corporate ethics
glosses: One who believes a corporation should care only about maximizing shareholder value, and not be concerned with any other stakeholders.