palliardize
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Sardanapalus, son to Ocrazapes, Who wallowed in all voluptuousness, – That palliardizing sot that out of doors Ne'er showed his face, but reveled with his whores, Did wear their garbs, their gestures imitate, And […]"
- "T. Milles in 1619 records that Charlemagne's eldest daughter was found palliardizing (paillardising) with . . . Eginhard, his secretary. A straw shows which way the wind blows."
- "My point is not that Donne was rationalizing his own (conjectural) palliardizing; elsewhere he lauds neverending mutuality and obviously he went to great lengths to make such a legally constraining match."
- "Tonight, for instance, now that Bert has been here, I listen to the piercing screams of palliardizing cats without self-pity. Another of these “posthumous” poems, “Glad,” written in 1965, was a second-person address […]"
Etymology
From palliard + -ize.
Usage
Inflected Forms
palliardizes (present, singular)
palliardizing (participle, present)
palliardized (participle, past)
palliardized (past)