angelize

English

Alternative forms

angelise (non-Oxford British spelling)

Etymology

Verb

angelize (third-person singular simple present angelizes, present participle angelizing, simple past and past participle angelized)

(transitive) To raise to the state of an angel; to render angelic.
- W. Taylor
  It ought not to be our object to angelize, nor to brutalize, but to humanize man.

Translations

to render angelic

Portuguese: angelizar

References

angelize in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

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