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Petrarchize

Petrarchize verb: to use the literary style of Petrarch.

Verb

Petrarchize (third-person singular simple present Petrarchizes, present participle Petrarchizing, simple past and past participle Petrarchized)

  1. To use the literary style of Petrarch.

Forms of Petrarchize

third-person singular presentPetrarchizes
present participlePetrarchizing
past participlePetrarchized
pastPetrarchized

Origin of Petrarchize

From Petrarch + -ize.

Questions about Petrarchize

What does Petrarchize mean?
Petrarchize means to use the literary style of Petrarch.
What part of speech is Petrarchize?
Petrarchize is a verb.
What is the past tense of Petrarchize?
The past tense of Petrarchize is Petrarchized.

Words near Petrarchize in the dictionary

  1. Petrarchianism
  2. Petrarchism
  3. Petrarchisms
  4. Petrarchist
  5. Petrarchists
  6. Petrarchize
  7. Petrarchized
  8. Petrarchizes
  9. Petrarchizing
  10. petrarcid
  11. petraries

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Petrarchize (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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