poetizing
poetizing is the present participle and gerund of poetize.
Meaning of poetize
Verb
poetize (third-person singular simple present poetizes, present participle poetizing, simple past and past participle poetized)
- To make (something) poetic.
- She acknowledged that Wordsworth had done more to make all men poetical, than perhaps any other; that he was the poet of reflection; that where he failed to poetize his subject, his simple faith intimated to the reader a poetry that he did not find in the book.1857, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, volume I
- To compose poetry.
- [T]each thy Incubus to Poëtize, / And throvve abroad thy ſpurious Snotteries, / Vpon that puft-vp Lumpe of Barmy froth, […]1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster or The Arraignment: […], London: […] [R. Bradock] for M[atthew] L[ownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, Act V, scene iii, signature L4, recto
Questions about poetizing
- What is poetizing the present participle and gerund of?
- Poetizing is the present participle and gerund of poetize.
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