angelize
English
Alternative forms
- angelise (non-Oxford British spelling)
Etymology
angel + -ize
Verb
angelize (third-person singular simple present angelizes, present participle angelizing, simple past and past participle angelized)
- (transitive) To raise to the state of an angel; to render angelic.
- W. Taylor
- It ought not to be our object to angelize, nor to brutalize, but to humanize man.
- W. Taylor
Translations
to render angelic
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References
- angelize in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.