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fortunizing

fortunizing is the present participle and gerund of fortunize.

Meaning of fortunize

Verb

fortunize (third-person singular simple present fortunizes, present participle fortunizing, simple past and past participle fortunized)

  1. (obsolete, rare, transitive) To make fortunate or wealthy.
    • For wisedome is most riches: fooles therefore / They are which fortunes doe by vowes devize, / Sith each unto himselfe his life may fortunize.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Questions about fortunizing

What is fortunizing the present participle and gerund of?
Fortunizing is the present participle and gerund of fortunize.

Words near fortunizing in the dictionary

  1. fortunises
  2. fortunising
  3. fortunize
  4. fortunized
  5. fortunizes
  6. fortunizing
  7. Fortuny pleat
  8. Fortuny pleats
  9. Fortuynism
  10. Fortuynist
  11. Fortuynists

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