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blackguardize

verb

Etymology

From blackguard + -ize.

  1. derived from *wardāną✻ — “to guard, protect”
  2. derived from *wardēn✻
  3. derived from wardo
  4. derived from garder
  5. compounded as blackguard — “black + guard”
  6. suffixed as blackguardize — “blackguard + ize”

Definitions

  1. To make blackguardly.

    • Accordingly it has been employed, in a modern symphony, in order to parody, degrade, and blackguardize (if I may be pardoned the expression) a melody; the dramatic intention of the work requiring this strange transformation.
    • I find it generally pays to blackguardize the husband.

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