Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

byronize

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: by-ronize
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To make something, or someone, more Byronic

verb

To look at the world as if one were a Byronic character

Example Sentences

"(17–20) No longer trying to Byronize her heroines only to discover that female commitments alienate them from the romance of Byronic alienation, Hemans makes Byron accountable to her values. Recasting Childe Harold is a recurring[…]"
"Seeing as Conrad sees, the Critical Review neatly Byronizes: “A figure approaches — it is Gulnare. A spot of blood is all eloquence. The deed is done” (RR B:2:634). The first impulse of signification is to imagine the[…]"
"What makes it so painful to predict his future candidly is the fact that this Russian Byronizing tradition has an undercurrent of unconscious self-destructiveness, constantly oscillating between would-be folk hero and would-be martyr,[…]"
"My dear, I remember men who Byronized themselves to death. I have seen much; I have seen men who, for example, took a fancy to peasants, and ended with drinking vodka in peasant dramshops. There is no measure with us, and there cannot[…]"

Etymology

From Byron + -ize.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: Byron

Inflected Forms

Byronizes (present, singular) Byronizing (participle, present) Byronized (participle, past) Byronized (past)

Questions

What does byronize mean?: To make something, or someone, more Byronic
Where does byronize come from?: From Byron + -ize.

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