Bachelorize
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 To make into a bachelor; to deprive of a spouse.
"To eradicate all domestic and patriotic sympathies with home and "their own, their native land," and in order to have in them a militia that would feel and fight for him alone, the Pope bachelorized the whole ministry about the termination of the eleventh century."
- 2 To confer a bachelor's degree on.
"as if Sancho were anybody they pleased, and not that very Sancho Panza handed about in print all the world over, as Sampson Carrasco told me, who, at least, has been bachelorized at Salamanca ;"
- 3 To make or become typical of a bachelor.
"Man needs woman's refining care to keep him from becoming bachelorized."
- 4 To live without neither spouse nor children; to live alone or with other single people.
"They of course live very cheaply, because these communities are composed of men bachelorizing together, they have no wives or children to support, as women are not allowed to leave China."
- 5 To live the life of a bachelor; to socialize without a wife.
"“You trifler!” Mrs. Armstrong was meanwhile saying. “I want you to talk seriously on this subject. It is high time that you solemnly attended to it. Do you mean to bachelorize your life out? […]""
Example
More examples"To eradicate all domestic and patriotic sympathies with home and "their own, their native land," and in order to have in them a militia that would feel and fight for him alone, the Pope bachelorized the whole ministry about the termination of the eleventh century."
Etymology
From bachelor + -ize.
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