"Genevate" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: Genevates [present, singular, third-person], Genevating [participle, present], Genevated [participle, past], Genevated [past]
Etymology: Geneva + -ate Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|Geneva|ate}} Geneva + -ate Head templates: {{en-verb}} Genevate (third-person singular simple present Genevates, present participle Genevating, simple past and past participle Genevated)
  1. To convert to puritanism (as it was practiced in Geneva).
    Sense id: en-Genevate-en-verb-ghMC0QbI Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ate

Inflected forms

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