bachelorise

present singular third person bachelorises · participle present bachelorising · participle past bachelorised · past bachelorised

1. alternativeAlternative form of bachelorize.

   I was sorry to hear you have not been well but hope you will shortly be fit again or able to come and bachelorise with me, or better still bring your wife.

   1959, Airini Elizabeth Woodhouse, Guthrie-Smith of Tutira, page 100

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   I do not merely refer to the young men, who can bachelorise occasionally and put up with a good deal of rough usage, but young women who previously have never known what it was to have anything but a most comfortable home

   1908, New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates, page 717

   Confident that she can take care of herself in any circumstances, at any age after her twenty-first year, she will travel alone all over the world and bachelorise in risky neighbourhoods of London and Paris without the least intentional bravado, merely because she is unsuspicious, fearless and interested in everything.

   1908, Empire Review - Volume 14, page 142