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unphilosophizes

unphilosophizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of unphilosophize.

Meaning of unphilosophize

Verb

unphilosophize (third-person singular simple present unphilosophizes, present participle unphilosophizing, simple past and past participle unphilosophized)

  1. (transitive) To degrade from the character of a philosopher; to act in an unphilosophical way.
    • December 14, 1713, Alexander Pope, letter to Joseph Addison
      But we must return (thro' our very condition of being) to our narrow selves, and those things that affect our selves: our passions, our interests, flow in upon us, and unphilosophise us into meer mortals

Questions about unphilosophizes

What is unphilosophizes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Unphilosophizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of unphilosophize.

Words near unphilosophizes in the dictionary

  1. unphilosophised
  2. unphilosophises
  3. unphilosophising
  4. unphilosophize
  5. unphilosophized
  6. unphilosophizes
  7. unphilosophizing
  8. unphilosophy
  9. unphlegmatic
  10. unphlegmatically
  11. unphonated

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