"pejorize" meaning in All languages combined

See pejorize on Wiktionary

Verb [English]

Forms: pejorizes [present, singular, third-person], pejorizing [participle, present], pejorized [participle, past], pejorized [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} pejorize (third-person singular simple present pejorizes, present participle pejorizing, simple past and past participle pejorized)
  1. (transitive, rare) To render pejorative. Tags: rare, transitive

Inflected forms

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        "third-person"
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    },
    {
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      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pejorized",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pejorized",
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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            "Entry maintenance"
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          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
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        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1926, Paul Carus, The Open Court, volume 40, page 635:",
          "text": "It is enough that we are all as yet mere children in knowledge without being so foolish also as to aggravate and pejorize the situation with our hoydenish conduct.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1991, Hans Henrich Hock, Principles of Historical Linguistics, page 302:",
          "text": "On the other hand, the fact that OE cniht means not only 'boy, youth', but also 'servant' reflects a different, pejorizing tendency which likewise has parallels elsewhere.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Matthew Giancarlo, Parliament and Literature in Late Medieval England, page 77:",
          "text": "At the same time, the desire to see or to represent the community as one, as a universitas, is both idealized and pejorized by thinking of it as “one voice,” since vocal singular interests supposedly oppose the communal interests of the speaking assembly.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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        "To render pejorative."
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        "(transitive, rare) To render pejorative."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare",
        "transitive"
      ]
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  ],
  "word": "pejorize"
}
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    {
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      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
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      "form": "pejorizing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "pejorized",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "pejorized",
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          "ref": "1926, Paul Carus, The Open Court, volume 40, page 635:",
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          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1991, Hans Henrich Hock, Principles of Historical Linguistics, page 302:",
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          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Matthew Giancarlo, Parliament and Literature in Late Medieval England, page 77:",
          "text": "At the same time, the desire to see or to represent the community as one, as a universitas, is both idealized and pejorized by thinking of it as “one voice,” since vocal singular interests supposedly oppose the communal interests of the speaking assembly.",
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