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单词 blackguardize
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blackguardizev.

Brit. /ˈblaɡɑːdʌɪz/, /ˈblaɡədʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈblæɡərˌdaɪz/, /ˈblæˌɡɑrdaɪz/
Forms: 1700s– blackguardize, 1800s– blackguardise.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: blackguard n., -ize suffix.
Etymology: < blackguard n. + -ize suffix. Compare earlier blackguard v.
transitive. To reduce to the condition of a blackguard (blackguard n. 6); to characterize as a blackguard. Also intransitive: to behave as a blackguard.
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society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > degrading or impairing morally > degrade or impair morally [verb (transitive)] > make wicked or evil > make into a blackguard
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1777 Public Advertiser 29 July 2/1 The Sides of the Road..are choaked up with scrubby Trees, Signs,..old Goods, muddy-Ditches, and whatever can blackguardize or disgrace an Entrance into the most capital City in Europe.
1812 H. C. Robinson Diary 29 Oct. in On Bks. & their Writers (1938) I. 112 Cobbett blackguardizes in style, and the Morning Post is not inferior to him.
1846 Blackwood's Mag. 60 594 At last we became..a good deal blackguardised in our taste.
1864 Meliora 6 193 The same unrefined taste was afterwards gilded and polished into the tournament, and blackguardized into the prize-ring fight.
1916 T. H. S. Escott Great Victorians ii. 131 Cardigan..acted on the principle that it was not enough for the British private to be blackguardized by circumstances, but that..he must be brutalized by the lash.
1966 Compar. Lit. 18 23 Henley had indeed ‘blackguardized’ the ‘Ballade de Bonne Doctrine’, for his translation was similar to Villon's original only in form.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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