classicizing

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Verb

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classicizing

  1. present participle and gerund of classicize

Adjective

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classicizing (comparative more classicizing, superlative most classicizing)

  1. Adopting a classical style.
    • 2012, Barbara Newman, “Ailments of the Tongue”, in London Review of Books, volume 34, number 6:
      In his classicising Troilus and Criseyde, set with pagan aplomb in ancient Troy, he approvingly quotes the rhetorician Geoffrey of Vinsauf’s New Poetics.
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