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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)

  1. (transitive) 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
  2. (intransitive) 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.

Words near poetizing in the dictionary

  1. poetize
  2. poetized
  3. poetizer
  4. poetizers
  5. poetizes
  6. poetizing
  7. poetless
  8. poetlike
  9. poetling
  10. poetlings
  11. poetly

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