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harlotized

harlotized is the simple past and past participle of harlotize.

Meaning of harlotize

Verb

harlotize (third-person singular simple present harlotizes, present participle harlotizing, simple past and past participle harlotized)

  1. (intransitive) To act like a harlot.
    • It is no extraordinary paradox, That a man may himſelf debauch his own wife, and a woman harlotize with her own huſband.—But this ſubject muſt be touched with great nicety; therefore I ſhall only add, that even our moſt unobſerved behaviour ſhall carry with it ſuch a ſpirit of refinement, as to...1746, Benjamin Franklin, “Letter II”, in Reflections on Courtship and Marriage, section 4, London: A. Thompson, et al, page 39
  2. (transitive) To turn into a harlot; to prostitute.
    • […] Yeat too too forcible I feare to be forgot of some, / For slaunder set on foote, though false, is talkatiuely dome. / Malicious (for thy malice is thy matter all in all) / Is it to harlotize, thinkst thou, a Goddesse wrong too small, / But thou must forge it from the Earth, euen from the...1597, William Warner, Albion's England, book 6, chapter 30

Questions about harlotized

What is harlotized the simple past and past participle of?
Harlotized is the simple past and past participle of harlotize.

Words near harlotized in the dictionary

  1. harlotise
  2. harlotised
  3. harlotises
  4. harlotising
  5. harlotize
  6. harlotized
  7. harlotizes
  8. harlotizing
  9. harlotries
  10. harlotry
  11. harlots

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