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单词 demonstrationizing
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demonstrationizingn.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: demonstration n., -izing suffix1.
Etymology: < demonstration n. + -izing suffix1. N.E.D. (1895) included this under the headword demonstrationize (verb), defined as ‘to make a public demonstration’, but with only the quot. given below as documentation, from which the verb was apparently inferred.
Obsolete. rare.
A show of military force; = demonstration n. 6.
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show1548
show of force1606
armed demonstration1806
demonstration1806
demonstrationizing1882
1882 St. James's Gaz. 28 June 3/1 It should be argued not upon the history of our recent demonstrationizings alone; we should not lose sight of the position of the Government... The more judicious of its members seem to fancy that if once more demonstration comes to nothing—if..the Government abandon their warlike intentions and fetch home their ships, that Government will speedily be as a candle-end flaring in the socket with stench intolerable.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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