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immortalising

immortalising is the present participle and gerund of immortalise.

Meaning of immortalise

Verb

immortalise (third-person singular simple present immortalises, present participle immortalising, simple past and past participle immortalised)

  1. To give unending life to, to make immortal.
    • The meek intelligence of thoſe dear eyes / (Bleſt be the art that can immortalize, / The art that baffles time's tyrannic claim / To quench it) here ſhines on me ſtill the ſame.1790, William Cowper, “On the Receipt of My Mother’s Picture out of Norfolk. The Gift of My Cousin Ann Bodham.”, in Poems […], London: […] [F]or J[oseph] Johnson, […] by T[homas] Bensley, […]...
  2. To make eternally famous.
    • His heroic deeds were immortalised in song and tale.

Questions about immortalising

What is immortalising the present participle and gerund of?
Immortalising is the present participle and gerund of immortalise.

Words near immortalising in the dictionary

  1. immortalise
  2. immortalised
  3. immortaliser
  4. immortalisers
  5. immortalises
  6. immortalising
  7. immortalism
  8. immortalist
  9. immortalists
  10. immortalities
  11. immortality

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