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battologise

battologise is the alternative form of battologize.

Meaning of battologize

Verb

battologize (third-person singular simple present battologizes, present participle battologizing, simple past and past participle battologized)

  1. To keep repeating needlessly; to iterate.
    • after they have battologized Lla y-lala, or Hilula, i.e. Praises, they iterate another to this effect1634, T[homas] H[erbert], A Relation of Some Yeares Trauaile, Begunne Anno 1626. into Afrique and the Greater Asia, […], London: […] William Stansby, and Jacob Bloome, →OCLC

Forms of battologise

third-person singular presentbattologises
present participlebattologising
past participlebattologised
pastbattologised

Questions about battologise

What is battologise the alternative form of?
Battologise is the alternative form of battologize.

Words near battologise in the dictionary

  1. battlings
  2. battner
  3. battners
  4. battological
  5. battologies
  6. battologise
  7. battologised
  8. battologises
  9. battologising
  10. battologism
  11. battologisms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: battologise (page history and authors); battologize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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