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fustianizes

fustianizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of fustianize.

Meaning of fustianize

Verb

fustianize (third-person singular simple present fustianizes, present participle fustianizing, simple past and past participle fustianized)

  1. (dated, intransitive) To write or utter pretentious statements.
    • What is a poet's love? — / To write a girl a sonnet, / To get a ring, or some such thing, / And fustianize upon it.a. 1894, Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Poet's Lot

Questions about fustianizes

What is fustianizes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Fustianizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of fustianize.

Words near fustianizes in the dictionary

  1. fustianism
  2. fustianist
  3. fustianists
  4. fustianize
  5. fustianized
  6. fustianizes
  7. fustianizing
  8. fustians
  9. fustic
  10. fustick
  11. fusticks

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