rosify

present singular third person rosifies · participle present rosifying · participle past rosified · past rosified

1. transitiveTo view or portray in a rosy manner; to romanticize.

   Have you heard my new name for your habit of mind? Rosification. Rather good, eh? And you can rosify anything from Lucretia Borgia to cold mutton.

   1919, Compton Mackenzie, Poor Relations, London: Macdonald & Co., published 1949, page 103

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   For nothing should ever be vague, woolly, romanticised or slurred over in her work, vowed Laura; nothing sentimental, nothing that pretended to be something which was not, or concealed that which was; it was easy to gain a striking effect by exaggerating, falsifying, rosifying, but she scorned such methods[…]

   1938, Phyllis Bentley, Sleep in Peace, New York: Macmillan, page 252

   In the third, To Let, there is, with the arrival of his daughter Fleur, the beginnings of that softening and sentimentalising of Soames which in the subsequent volumes of the Chronicles turns him into a ruminating Tory bore, while Galsworthy's sentimental streak, always strong, begins to rosify his picture of the young.

   1970, T. C. Worsley, “The Forsyte Saga”, in Television: the Ephemeral Art, London: Alan Ross Ltd., →ISBN, page 106

   Ten minutes later and we've been through the recited, edited, rosified highlights of Joe's life – him being part of Stonemouth's premier crime family seems to have been spun out of existence[…]

   2012, Iain Banks, Stonemouth, New York: Pegasus Crime, →ISBN, page 275