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linguisticizing

linguisticizing is the present participle and gerund of linguisticize.

Meaning of linguisticize

Verb

linguisticize (third-person singular simple present linguisticizes, present participle linguisticizing, simple past and past participle linguisticized)

  1. (transitive) To make linguistic; to reduce to a question of linguistics.
    • To Gotz, however, such a development is abhorrent; for his purposes the best application of language is obviously the one that "linguisticizes" least.1986, Bruce Kieffer, The Storm and Stress of Language: Linguistic Catastrophe in the Early Works of Goethe, Lenz, Klinger, and Schiller

Questions about linguisticizing

What is linguisticizing the present participle and gerund of?
Linguisticizing is the present participle and gerund of linguisticize.

Words near linguisticizing in the dictionary

  1. linguisticians
  2. linguisticization
  3. linguisticize
  4. linguisticized
  5. linguisticizes
  6. linguisticizing
  7. linguisticky
  8. linguistics
  9. linguistry
  10. linguists
  11. linguiça

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