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gallantize

verb

Etymology

From gallant + -ize.

  1. derived from *gailaz✻ — “merry; excited; luxurious”
  2. derived from *gail✻ — “merry; mirthful; proud; luxuriant”
  3. derived from *welh₁-✻ — “to choose, wish”
  4. derived from *wela✻
  5. derived from galant — “courteous; dashing; brave”
  6. inherited from galant
  7. suffixed as gallantize — “gallant + ize”

Definitions

  1. To woo or flirt with.

    • […] such opportunities of gallantizing their wives, as the French and other novelists, I mean novel-writers, would insinuate.
    • One day I took a solitary ride there, while Oliver was gallantizing the ladies, a vocation for which his invincible good humour and unfailing vivacity, eminently qualify him.
    • In my days of celibacy, there was a gal at Saratoga whom I gallantized, and whom, while I was at Saratoga, I thought Heaven had made to be Mrs. Morley;

  2. To socialize in a fashionable manner.

    • They have waxed to be most flagrant, outrageous, and abandoned dancers ; they do ponder on noughte but how to gallantize it at balls, routs, and fandangos, insomuch that the like was in no time or place ever observed before.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA