euphuize

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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verb

"It is this artificial character of the style, as much as anything, that has led the critics into a unanimity of scorn, and made them declare (to euphuize the burden of their observations) that they would sooner be content to forego the author's wisdom than constrained to undergo his wit […]"

From Euphu(es) + -ize, after the titular character in John Lyly’s didactic romance Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578); see euphuism for more.

euphuizes (present, singular) euphuizing (participle, present) euphuized (participle, past) euphuized (past)

euphuism euphuistic

Questions

What does euphuize mean?

To write with euphuism.

Where does euphuize come from?

From Euphu(es) + -ize, after the titular character in John Lyly’s didactic romance Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578); see euphuism for more.

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