villanize
English
Verb
villanize (third-person singular simple present villanizes, present participle villanizing, simple past and past participle villanized)
- (transitive) To make vile; to debase; to degrade; to revile.
- 1700, John Dryden, The Wife of Bath
- Were virtue by descent, a noble name
Could never villanize his father's fame.
- Were virtue by descent, a noble name
- 1700, John Dryden, The Wife of Bath
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for villanize in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)