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nominifying

nominifying is the present participle and gerund of nominify.

Meaning of nominify

Verb

nominify (third-person singular simple present nominifies, present participle nominifying, simple past and past participle nominified)

  1. To convert into a noun.
    • In English we tend to nominify— that is, to turn verbs and adjectives into nouns (the first version of this sentence began, "There is a tendency in English...").1969, Allan Danzig, Edith Schor, Thesis: Rhetoric of the Essay, page 310

Questions about nominifying

What is nominifying the present participle and gerund of?
Nominifying is the present participle and gerund of nominify.

Words near nominifying in the dictionary

  1. nomineeism
  2. nominees
  3. nominified
  4. nominifies
  5. nominify
  6. nominifying
  7. nominine
  8. nomino-
  9. nominoaccusative
  10. nominor
  11. nominors

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