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tonalises

tonalises is the third-person singular simple present indicative of tonalise.

Meaning of tonalise

Verb

tonalise (third-person singular simple present tonalises, present participle tonalising, simple past and past participle tonalised)

  1. (painting) To view or create in terms of tonalism.
    • With that, he stood rasping his beard, and frowning at her, and going back a few paces to frown and peer at her from this and that angle. Cora knew what that meant, and stood to be tonalised, relieving self-consciousness in her muscles by stretching and relaxing, and preening up her breasts in...1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 178

Questions about tonalises

What is tonalises the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Tonalises is the third-person singular simple present indicative of tonalise.

Words near tonalises in the dictionary

  1. tonalamatl
  2. tonalamatls
  3. Tonalea
  4. tonalise
  5. tonalised
  6. tonalises
  7. tonalising
  8. tonalism
  9. tonalist
  10. tonalistic
  11. tonalists

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