monologuist
(ˈmɒnəlɒgɪst)
Also -logueist.
[f. monologue + -ist.]
One who talks or performs in monologue; one who delivers monologues.
| 1865 Athenæum 29 July 151/3 The newest of the monologuists is Mr. M{supc}Cabe. 1866 Ibid. 3 Feb. 175/1 Such subjects as ‘The Murder Idyl’, in which the monologuist is a woman whose husband has been hanged. 1874 W. Mathews Gt. Conversers, etc. i. 30 The name..would imply that he [Ld. Macaulay] was a monologueist, not a converser. 1901 Dict. Nat. Biog. Suppl. I. 317/2 Browning was, as a writer, largely a psychological monologuist. |