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rhapsodizing

rhapsodizing is the present participle and gerund of rhapsodize.

Meaning of rhapsodize

Verb

rhapsodize (third-person singular simple present rhapsodizes, present participle rhapsodizing, simple past and past participle rhapsodized)

  1. (British, English, Oxford, US, intransitive) To speak with exaggerated or rapturous enthusiasm (about, (up)on or over something).
    • The evergreen! How beautiful, how welcome, how wonderful the evergreen! […] You will think me rhapsodizing; but when I am out of doors, especially when I am sitting out of doors, I am very apt to get into this sort of wondering strain.1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter IV, in Mansfield Park: […], volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 76
    Synonyms:
    rave
  2. (British, English, Oxford, US, transitive) To say (something) with exaggerated or rapturous enthusiasm.
    • “It’s a long time since I tasted such a borshtch! Simply a vivifier! It melts in every limb!”" he kept rhapsodizing, between mouthfuls. “It ought to be sent to the Chicago Exposition. The missess would get a medal.”1896, Abraham Cahan, chapter 5, in Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto, New York: Appleton
  3. (British, English, Oxford, US, transitive) To recount or describe (something) as a rhapsody, or in the manner of a rhapsody.
    • The campaigns themselves will take up as many books; and therefore I apprehend it would be hanging too great a weight of one kind of matter in so flimsy a performance as this, to rhapsodize them, as I once intended, into the body of the work […]1762, [Laurence Sterne], chapter XXI, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume VI, London: […] T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, […], →OCLC, page 90
  4. (British, English, Oxford, US, intransitive) To perform a rhapsody.
    • […] Carolan, the last of the Irish bards, rhapsodized in the halls of the O’Connors so lately as the year 1730.1824, Lady Morgan, The Life and Times of Salvator Rosa, London: Henry Colburn, Volume 2, Chapter 8, p. 33, footnote

Noun

rhapsodizing (plural rhapsodizings)

  1. The act of one who rhapsodizes; lyrical expression.
    • For all his rhapsodizings about the education of the soul through contact with nature, W. H. Cobb expected his ballplaying son to master lots of printed pages.1985, Charles C. Alexander, Ty Cobb

Forms of rhapsodizing

pluralrhapsodizings

Questions about rhapsodizing

What does rhapsodizing mean?
Rhapsodizing means the act of one who rhapsodizes; lyrical expression.
What is rhapsodizing the present participle and gerund of?
Rhapsodizing is the present participle and gerund of rhapsodize.
What part of speech is rhapsodizing?
Rhapsodizing is a noun.
What is the plural of rhapsodizing?
The plural of rhapsodizing is rhapsodizings.

Words near rhapsodizing in the dictionary

  1. rhapsodize
  2. rhapsodized
  3. rhapsodizer
  4. rhapsodizers
  5. rhapsodizes
  6. rhapsodizing
  7. rhapsodizings
  8. rhapsodomancy
  9. rhapsodomantic
  10. rhapsody
  11. rhapsoidos

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