"pejorize" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pejorizes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pejorizing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pejorized",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pejorized",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "pejorize (third-person singular simple present pejorizes, present participle pejorizing, simple past and past participle pejorized)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
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          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ize",
          "parents": [],
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      "examples": [
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            [
              113,
              121
            ]
          ],
          "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"
        },
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            [
              112,
              122
            ]
          ],
          "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"
        },
        {
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              114,
              123
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          "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"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To render pejorative."
      ],
      "id": "en-pejorize-en-verb-4u~aLPHe",
      "links": [
        [
          "pejorative",
          "pejorative"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, rare) To render pejorative."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pejorize"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pejorizes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pejorizing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pejorized",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pejorized",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "English lemmas",
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with rare senses",
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        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
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              113,
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          "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"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              112,
              122
            ]
          ],
          "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"
        },
        {
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            [
              114,
              123
            ]
          ],
          "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"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To render pejorative."
      ],
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        [
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          "pejorative"
        ]
      ],
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        "(transitive, rare) To render pejorative."
      ],
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        "rare",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pejorize"
}