Byronized

Verb

Byronize (third-person singular simple present Byronizes, present participle Byronizing, simple past and past participle Byronized)

1. To make something, or someone, more Byronic
   • (17–20) No longer trying to Byronize her heroines only to discover that female commitments alienate them from the romance of Byronic alienation, Hemans makes Byron accountable to her values. Recasting Childe Harold is a recurring[…]2016 February 2, N. Sweet, J. Melnyk, Felicia Hemans: Reimagining Poetry in the Nineteenth Century, Springer, →ISBN, page 172
2. To look at the world as if one were a Byronic character
   • My dear, I remember men who Byronized themselves to death. I have seen much; I have seen men who, for example, took a fancy to peasants, and ended with drinking vodka in peasant dramshops. There is no measure with us, and there cannot[…]2019 June 3, Henryk Sienkiewicz, The Greatest Works of Henryk Sienkiewicz: Quo Vadis, In Desert and Wilderness, With Fire and Sword, The Deluge, Pan Michael, Children of the Soil, On the Field of...