classicizing

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adjective

Adopting a classical style.

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Meanings

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of classicize
adjectiveclassicizing (comparative more classicizing, superlative most classicizing)

comparative more classicizing · superlative most classicizing

  1. Adopting a classical style.

    In his classicising Troilus and Criseyde, set with pagan aplomb in ancient Troy, he approvingly quotes the rhetorician Geoffrey of Vinsauf’s New Poetics.

    2012, Barbara Newman, “Ailments of the Tongue”, in London Review of Books, volume 34, number 6
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APA

classicizing. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/classicizing

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“classicizing.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/classicizing. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “classicizing,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/classicizing.

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