Posturize

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To posture. intransitive

    "He did not destroy the reality by the exhibition of more energy than belongs to the exhausted powers of a dying man; he did not caricature and posturize in the representation of this awful close of human life."

Example

More examples

"He did not destroy the reality by the exhibition of more energy than belongs to the exhausted powers of a dying man; he did not caricature and posturize in the representation of this awful close of human life."

Etymology

From posture + -ize.

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