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respectabilize

verb

Etymology

From respectable + -ize.

  1. derived from respectus
  2. derived from respect
  3. inherited from respect
  4. suffixed as respectable — “respect + able”
  5. suffixed as respectabilize — “respectable + ize”

Definitions

  1. To make respectable

    To make respectable; to give an appearance of respectability.

    • There's not a notion in this book that has a more frightful, or ridiculous, mien than had the notion of human footprints in rocks, when that now respectabilized ruffian, or clown, was first heard from.

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