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Newmanized

Newmanized is the simple past and past participle 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

Questions about Newmanized

What is Newmanized the simple past and past participle of?
Newmanized is the simple past and past participle of Newmanize.

Words near Newmanized in the dictionary

  1. Newmanising
  2. Newmanism
  3. Newmanite
  4. Newmanites
  5. Newmanize
  6. Newmanized
  7. Newmanizes
  8. Newmanizing
  9. Newmark
  10. Newmarket
  11. Newmarkets

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