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harlotizing

harlotizing is the present participle and gerund 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 harlotizing

What is harlotizing the present participle and gerund of?
Harlotizing is the present participle and gerund of harlotize.

Words near harlotizing in the dictionary

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

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