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diplomatise

diplomatise is the alternative form of diplomatize.

Meaning of diplomatize

Verb

diplomatize (third-person singular simple present diplomatizes, present participle diplomatizing, simple past and past participle diplomatized)

  1. (intransitive) To engage in diplomacy.
    • Without diplomatising to do so, with no effort to square her, none to bribe her to an attitude for which he would have had no use in her if it weren't sincere, he yet felt how he both held her and moved her by the felicity of his taking pity, all instinctively, on her just discernible depression.1904, Henry James, The Golden Bowl
  2. (transitive) To effect by means of diplomacy.

Forms of diplomatise

third-person singular presentdiplomatises
present participlediplomatising
past participlediplomatised
pastdiplomatised

Questions about diplomatise

What is diplomatise the alternative form of?
Diplomatise is the alternative form of diplomatize.

Words near diplomatise in the dictionary

  1. diplomaticity
  2. diplomatick
  3. diplomaticness
  4. diplomatics
  5. diplomating
  6. diplomatise
  7. diplomatised
  8. diplomatises
  9. diplomatising
  10. diplomatism
  11. diplomatist

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Adapted from Wiktionary: diplomatise (page history and authors); diplomatize (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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