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rhetorizes

rhetorizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of rhetorize.

Meaning of rhetorize

Verb

rhetorize (third-person singular simple present rhetorizes, present participle rhetorizing, simple past and past participle rhetorized)

  1. (transitive) To represent by a figure of rhetoric, or by personification.
    • As no less was that before his book against the Brownists , to write a letter to a Prosopopeia , a certain rhetorized woman whoin he calls mother , and complains of some that laid whoredom to her charge1642 April, An Apology against a Pamphlet Call’d A Modest Confutation of the Animadversions upon the Remonstrant against Smectymnuus, London: […] E[dward] G[riffin] for Iohn Rothwell, […], →OCLC
  2. (intransitive) To use rhetorical devices; to rhetoricate.

Questions about rhetorizes

What is rhetorizes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Rhetorizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of rhetorize.

Words near rhetorizes in the dictionary

  1. rhetoritians
  2. rhetoritician
  3. rhetoriticians
  4. rhetorize
  5. rhetorized
  6. rhetorizes
  7. rhetorizing
  8. rhetorolect
  9. rhetorolects
  10. rhetorology
  11. rhetors

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