protagonize

present singular third person protagonizes · participle present protagonizing · participle past protagonized · past protagonized

1. transitiveTo set up as the protagonist, or most significant character or entity.

   Our project should be to protagonize ourselves, and yet, that project presents certain problems.

   2018, Jennifer Markides, Laura Forsythe, Looking Back and Living Forward: Indigenous Research Rising Up, page 41

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   Self-protagonizing does not mean putting self first, nor maximizing self-gain. Rather, it expresses a certain sense of freedom […]

   2020, Randal Joy Thompson, Proleptic Leadership on the Commons, page 75

2. transitiveTo be the protagonist, or most significant character or entity (of a literary work, etc.).

   For the sake of convenience, the name “Ernesto [Guevara]” will refer to the young medical student who protagonizes The Motorcycle Diaries (henceforth, Motorcycle Diaries).

   2019 October 14, María Soledad Paz-Mackay, Omar Rodriguez, Politics of Children in Latin American Cinema, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 177