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Definition of Romanticise
1. Verb. Interpret romantically. "Don't romanticize this uninteresting and hard work!"
Generic synonyms: Idealise, Idealize
Derivative terms: Romanticisation, Romanticization
2. Verb. Make romantic in style. "The designer romanticized the little black dress"
Definition of Romanticise
1. Verb. (British) (alternative spelling of romanticize) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Romanticise
1. [v -CISED, -CISING, -CISES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Romanticise
Literary usage of Romanticise
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Modern Philosophy: A Sketch of the History of Philosophy from by Harald Høffding (1908)
"Hec-re he is opposed to the purely logical evolutionary theory of the Romanticise
This explains, too, the importance which he attributes in his philosophy r ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"He was rigidly classical in Ь tastes, and an ardent opponent of romanticise.
Among his other plays are 'La ..."
3. Ireland's Literary Renaissance by Ernest Augustus Boyd (1922)
"Similarly he is tempted to depart from the strictly horrible veracity of his
pictures in order to romanticise the unclean initiation of Stephen into the ..."
4. A History of German Literature by Calvin Thomas (1909)
"... Kleist undertook to romanticise an ancient Greek subject; and so completely
did the matter possess him that he thought, when the play was finished, ..."
5. Music (1899)
"It is interesting to note that Mr. Weingartner confines himself strictly to the
classical interpretation, and that he does not romanticise the first ..."
6. The Romantic Revolt by Charles Edwyn Vaughan (1907)
"... Helicon (1788-89), and who subsequently wrote a series of parodies on Gabrielle
de Vergy and other foreign or native efforts to romanticise the stage. ..."
7. The Life of George Brummell, Esq., Commonly Called Beau Brummell: Commonly by William Jesse (1844)
"I can answer for the truth of his account of poor Byron's never-dying attachment
to Mary Chaworth; for I have frequently heard him romanticise for hours ..."
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