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anachronizing

anachronizing is the present participle and gerund of anachronize.

Meaning of anachronize

Verb

anachronize (third-person singular simple present anachronizes, present participle anachronizing, simple past and past participle anachronized)

  1. To refer to, or put into, a wrong time period.
    • The only fair comparison would be between him and that one of his contemporaries who endeavored to anachronize himself, so to speak, and to subject his art, so far as might be, to the laws of classical composition.1873, James Russell Lowell, “Shakespeare Once More”, in Among My Books, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, page 198

Questions about anachronizing

What is anachronizing the present participle and gerund of?
Anachronizing is the present participle and gerund of anachronize.

Words near anachronizing in the dictionary

  1. anachronistically
  2. anachronists
  3. anachronize
  4. anachronized
  5. anachronizes
  6. anachronizing
  7. anachronous
  8. anachronously
  9. anachrony
  10. anachronym
  11. anachronyms

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