angelize

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Etymology

angel + -ize

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angelize (third-person singular simple present angelizes, present participle angelizing, simple past and past participle angelized)

  1. (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.

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Portuguese

Verb

angelize

  1. inflection of angelizar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
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