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gallantizing

gallantizing is the present participle and gerund of gallantize.

Meaning of gallantize

Verb

gallantize (third-person singular simple present gallantizes, present participle gallantizing, simple past and past participle gallantized)

  1. (obsolete) To woo or flirt with.
    • […] such opportunities of gallantizing their wives, as the French and other novelists, I mean novel-writers, would insinuate.1728, Joseph Morgan, The History of Algiers
  2. (obsolete) To socialize in a fashionable manner.
    • Some of the principall Officers, presuming by this small beginning that all was theirs returned to Paris, gallantized it in the City, tooke their pleasure, considered not that their Lords lay in Tents, and betook them to their beds of ease, to the danger, not ruine of his Majesties affairs, whose...1637, The Principall Passages of Germany, Italy, France, and Other Places

Questions about gallantizing

What is gallantizing the present participle and gerund of?
Gallantizing is the present participle and gerund of gallantize.

Words near gallantizing in the dictionary

  1. gallantises
  2. gallantising
  3. gallantize
  4. gallantized
  5. gallantizes
  6. gallantizing
  7. gallantless
  8. gallantly
  9. gallantness
  10. gallantries
  11. gallantry

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