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poeticizing

poeticizing is the present participle and gerund of poeticize.

Meaning of poeticize

Verb

poeticize (third-person singular simple present poeticizes, present participle poeticizing, simple past and past participle poeticized)

  1. (transitive) To make poetic, or express in poetry.
    • The ambition of Russia is most elaborately exposed in an essay highly poeticized.1829 July, The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, volume 99, page 50
  2. (intransitive) To write or speak in the manner of a poet.
    • They may poeticize when they come down upon the glory of the unclouded sun, or the extensive wonders of the developed landscape; but, my word for it, all was lost upon them, so long as their chief care was not to break their necks by a sudden descent!1846, Peers and parvenus, volumes 1-3, page 166

Questions about poeticizing

What is poeticizing the present participle and gerund of?
Poeticizing is the present participle and gerund of poeticize.

Words near poeticizing in the dictionary

  1. poeticization
  2. poeticizations
  3. poeticize
  4. poeticized
  5. poeticizes
  6. poeticizing
  7. poetick
  8. poeticks
  9. poeticky
  10. poeticness
  11. poetics

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