"Elizabethanize" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: Elizabethanizes [present, singular, third-person], Elizabethanizing [participle, present], Elizabethanized [participle, past], Elizabethanized [past], elizabethanize [alternative], Elizabethanise [alternative]
Etymology: From Elizabethan + -ize. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|Elizabethan|ize}} Elizabethan + -ize Head templates: {{en-verb}} Elizabethanize (third-person singular simple present Elizabethanizes, present participle Elizabethanizing, simple past and past participle Elizabethanized)
  1. To make more Elizabethan.

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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