Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

classicizing

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.14 in modern English

Syllables: clas-si-ciz-ing
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of classicize

adj

Adopting a classical style.

Example Sentences

"In his classicising Troilus and Criseyde, set with pagan aplomb in ancient Troy, he approvingly quotes the rhetorician Geoffrey of Vinsauf’s New Poetics."

Inflected Forms

more classicizing (comparative) most classicizing (superlative)

Questions

What does classicizing mean?: present participle and gerund of classicize

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