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Timonizing

Timonizing is the present participle and gerund of Timonize.

Meaning of Timonize

Verb

Timonize (third-person singular simple present Timonizes, present participle Timonizing, simple past and past participle Timonized)

  1. (intransitive) 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
  2. (transitive) 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

Questions about Timonizing

What is Timonizing the present participle and gerund of?
Timonizing is the present participle and gerund of Timonize.

Words near Timonizing in the dictionary

  1. Timonization
  2. Timonizations
  3. Timonize
  4. Timonized
  5. Timonizes
  6. Timonizing
  7. timophilia
  8. timoprazole
  9. Timor
  10. Timor boobook
  11. Timor boobooks

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