gallantizev.
/ˈɡaləntʌɪz/ Now rare.
1. intransitive. To play the gallant; esp. in to gallantize it.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > behave well [verb (intransitive)] > behave in courtly manner
to court it1553
gallantize1603
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. iii. v. 524 So they may gallantize and flush it in noueltie.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues se Gorgiaser, to flaunt, braue, or gallantize it.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) To Gallantize, to play the Gallant.
1807 Salmagundi 11 Nov. 360 They do ponder on noughte but how to gallantize it at balls, routs, and fandangoes.
2. transitive. To play the gallant to (a woman); to court.
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the mind > emotion > love > courtship or wooing > court or woo [verb (transitive)]
wooc1290
court1580
suitc1586
accourt1590
suitor1672
address1700
gallantize1728
philander1787
to stick up1830
spark1888
romance1931
lumber1938
1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. iii. 239 The meanest..never furnish their Visitors with such opportunities of gallantizing their wives, as the French and other Novelists..would insinuate.
1736 E. Stanley tr. T. de Saint-Hyacinthe Histoire du Prince Titi 22 A certain Privy Counsellor, who..gallantised all the young Girls he came near.
1872 E. Bulwer-Lytton Parisians ix. iii There was a gal..whom I gallantised.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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