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roˈmanticize, v.
[f. as prec. + -ize.]
1. trans. To render romantic in character.
1818Coleridge Lett. (1895) 690 A wood..which the old workman..has romanticised with..fifty seats and honey-suckle bowers. 1836Fraser's Mag. XIV. 720 The endless succession of Giaours, Childe Harolds, Laras, Corsairs,..which have romanticised French taste. 1900British Weekly 10 May 70/4 Modern feeling has greatly romanticised, we do not say raised, the idea of love.
2. intr. To indulge in romance.
1868Daily News 21 Dec., A gentleman..may be led on, like Pendennis with Fanny Bolton, to flirt and romanticise beneath him.
Hence roˌmanticiˈzation; roˈmanticizing vbl. n.; roˈmanticized, roˈmanticizing ppl. adjs.
1855Milman Lat. Chr. xiv. vii. (1864) VI. 246 The free prolix Epopee of the Trouvère, in its romanticised classic form. 1867Spectator 6 Apr. 387 We cannot but marvel exceedingly that the romanticizing critics have not made the discovery for us. 1899Speaker 14 Apr. 424/2 Enlivened by champagne and some grotesque romanticising on the part of the amorous Duchess. 1935Mind XLIV. 95 His [sc. Nietzsche's] ‘Dionysus philosophy’ is a typically Germanic brutalisation, exaggeration, romanticisation of something borrowed. 1968G. Ashe Quest for Arthur's Britain i. 28 Leland's romanticisation of Henry VIII was elaborately transferred to Elizabeth by Edmund Spenser. |