Timonizes
Timonizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of Timonize.
Meaning of Timonize
Verb
Timonize (third-person singular simple present Timonizes, present participle Timonizing, simple past and past participle Timonized)
- To behave as a misanthrope.
- I should be tempted to Timonize, and clap a Satyr upon our whole Species.1713, William Darrell, The Gentleman Instructed, 5th edition
- To cause (someone) to slide into bitter misanthropy, into Timonism.
- And it may well be believed, that after the wonderful vital world-revelation so suddenly made to Pierre at the Meadows—a revelation which, at moments, in some certain things, fairly Timonized him—he had not failed to clutch with peculiar nervous detestation and contempt that ample parcel...1852, Herman Melville, Pierre: or, The Ambiguities, Harper & Brothers, page 348
Forms of Timonizes
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Questions about Timonizes
- What is Timonizes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
- Timonizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of Timonize.
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