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tudorize

tudorize is the alternative form of Tudorize.

Verb capitalized: Tudorize

Tudorize (third-person singular simple present Tudorizes, present participle Tudorizing, simple past and past participle Tudorized)

  1. (transitive) To alter according to the styles and ideas of the Tudor period.
    • He wishes the balustrade to be an architectural symphony, and suggests a sunset effect in the draperies to give certain lambent devices, as it were, and then protests, after the manner of Mrs. Micawber, that he will never Tudorize Greek ideas.1880, The Cabinet Maker and Art Furnisher - Volume 1, page 190
    • The dramatist availed himself of the scholarship of his age — North's version of Plutarch, Holinshed's Chronicles, and much else — but he did not Tudorize history as we seem to want to Freudianize writing.1968, Howard Mumford Jones, William Charvat, Scholarship, Novelty, and Teaching

Forms of tudorize

third-person singular presenttudorizes
present participletudorizing
past participletudorized
pasttudorized
third-person singular presentTudorizes
present participleTudorizing
past participleTudorized
pastTudorized
alternative formTudorise
alternative formtudorize
alternative formtudorise

Origin of tudorize

From Tudor + -ize.

Questions about tudorize

What does tudorize mean?
Tudorize means to alter according to the styles and ideas of the Tudor period.
What is tudorize the alternative form of?
Tudorize is the alternative form of Tudorize.
What part of speech is tudorize?
Tudorize is a verb.
What is the past tense of tudorize?
The past tense of tudorize is tudorized.

Words near tudorize in the dictionary

  1. Tudoresque
  2. tudorise
  3. tudorised
  4. tudorises
  5. tudorising
  6. tudorize
  7. tudorized
  8. tudorizes
  9. tudorizing
  10. Tudors
  11. Tudu

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tudorize (page history and authors); Tudorize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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