rôle-playing

See also: rôle playing, role-playing, role playing, rôleplaying, and roleplaying

English

Noun

rôle-playing (uncountable)

  1. Dated form of roleplaying.
    • 1982, David C. Taylor, “The Components of Sickness: Diseases, Illnesses and Predicaments”, in John Apley, Christopher Ounsted, editors, One Child (Clinics in Developmental Medicine; 80), London: William Heinemann Medical Books; Philadelphia, Pa.: J. B. Lippincott Co., →ISBN, page 7:
      Psychiatric disorder is less often associated with somatic impairment, and rôle-playing is the more significant part. The self may enact its distress as well as explain it, but the enactment can be misconstrued.
    • 1991, Michael Mangan, “‘Break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue’”, in A Preface to Shakespeare’s Tragedies (Preface Books), London; New York, N.Y.: Longman, →ISBN, part 3 (Critical Analysis: […]), page 133:
      The contradictoriness and multifacetedness of identity is a constant theme in a play which deals so centrally with ideas of plays, illusion, rôle-playing and theatricality.
    • 1996, Brian Crow, “‘A Truly Living Moment’: Acting and the Statements Plays”, in Geoffrey V. Davis, Anne Fuchs, editors, Theatre and Change in South Africa (Contemporary Theatre Studies; 12), Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 21:
      As in their previous production Winston Ntshona played the character who lacks natural versatility in rôle-playing while John Kani, as in his rôles of Styles and Buntu, played the character who embraces and celebrates the possibilities of theatricality.

Verb

rôle-playing

  1. present participle and gerund of rôle-play
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