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antiquarianizing

antiquarianizing is the present participle and gerund of antiquarianize.

Meaning of antiquarianize

Verb

antiquarianize (third-person singular simple present antiquarianizes, present participle antiquarianizing, simple past and past participle antiquarianized)

  1. (colloquial, dated, intransitive) To act the part of an antiquary.
    • She talks to old women, and tracks rare flowers, and sketches and photographs and geologizes and antiquarianizes and gets burnt till she won't be fit to wear a low dress for a month, and looks uncommonly well on it all the time.1901, Mary H. Debenham, Una's friends: their holiday in fairyland

Questions about antiquarianizing

What is antiquarianizing the present participle and gerund of?
Antiquarianizing is the present participle and gerund of antiquarianize.

Words near antiquarianizing in the dictionary

  1. antiquarianist
  2. antiquarianists
  3. antiquarianize
  4. antiquarianized
  5. antiquarianizes
  6. antiquarianizing
  7. antiquarianly
  8. antiquarians
  9. antiquariat
  10. antiquariats
  11. antiquaries

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