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Newmanise

Newmanise is the alternative form of Newmanize.

Meaning of Newmanize

Verb

Newmanize (third-person singular simple present Newmanizes, present participle Newmanizing, simple past and past participle Newmanized)

  1. (derogatory) To translate in a manner that makes use of archaisms and which tends to closely follow the original rather than modernize the language in the translation.
    • To grunt and sweat under a weary load does perfectly well where it comes in Shakspeare: but if the translator of Homer, who will hardly have wound up our minds to the pitch at which these words of Hamlet find them, were to employ, when he has to speak of Homer's heroes under the load of calimity...1862, Matthew Arnold, On Translating Homer: Last Words

Forms of Newmanise

third-person singular presentNewmanises
present participleNewmanising
past participleNewmanised
pastNewmanised

Questions about Newmanise

What is Newmanise the alternative form of?
Newmanise is the alternative form of Newmanize.

Words near Newmanise in the dictionary

  1. Newman
  2. Newman-Goldfarb protocol
  3. Newman-Goldfarb protocols
  4. Newman-Kwart rearrangement
  5. Newman-Kwart rearrangements
  6. Newmanise
  7. Newmanised
  8. Newmanises
  9. Newmanising
  10. Newmanism
  11. Newmanite

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Newmanise (page history and authors); Newmanize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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