blackguardizing
blackguardizing is the present participle and gerund of blackguardize.
Meaning of blackguardize
Verb
blackguardize (third-person singular simple present blackguardizes, present participle blackguardizing, simple past and past participle blackguardized)
- To make blackguardly.
- This is an Education which consists in the outleading of the blackguardizing, pauperizing, vagrant-like, and theftuous elements of the mentality, entirely withdrawn, and apart from any moral guidance, any elevating tendency, any ameliorating influence, nay, directly under the direction of the...1851, Philomathos, “Ought Government to Provide a Secular Education For the People?”, in The British Controversialist: And Literary Magazine, number 13, page 351
Questions about blackguardizing
- What is blackguardizing the present participle and gerund of?
- Blackguardizing is the present participle and gerund of blackguardize.
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