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Definition of Euphemizing
1. euphemize [v] - See also: euphemize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Euphemizing
Literary usage of Euphemizing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Theological Studies (1900)
"... for the euphemizing and correction (ppn) of the language." The same writer,
however (on Job xxxii 3), has a different remark on the text of Num. xi 15. ..."
2. The History of Normandy and of England by Francis Palgrave (1857)
"... the inward tendencies of the heart: the agreeable cheat we pass upon ourselves
by euphemizing sins, or rendering crimes glorious by glorious sounds. ..."
3. Life in Mind & Conduct: Studies of Organic in Human Nature by Henry Maudsley (1902)
"... disdaining all soft concealments and apologies, yet in human nature it takes
on the new function of hiding, euphemizing, apologizing and idealizing. ..."
4. The History of Suffolk by John James Raven (1895)
"Here he wrote an epistle dedicatory to a volume of his sermons, euphemizing his
imprisonment as ' a little leisure, occasioned against my will. ..."
5. The Green Valley School: A Pedagogical Story by Cornelius Willet Gillam Hyde, North-Western School Supply Co (1907)
"... take in euphemizing his language in order to adapt it to the taste of the "gentle
reader." "I don't like it a little bit," was the reply, "but what's a ..."
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