Elizabethanize

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To make more Elizabethan.

    "Then after a fortnight's holiday the Players started to Elizabethanize their building."

  2. 2
    Alternative form of Elizabethanize. alt-of, alternative

    "In plot and characterization and the resulting significance of theme, his changes are the most vital; for here he undertook to humanize and to elizabethanize the story."

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"Then after a fortnight's holiday the Players started to Elizabethanize their building."

Etymology

From Elizabethan + -ize.

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