romancing
English edit
Verb edit
romancing
- present participle and gerund of romance
Noun edit
romancing (plural romancings)
- The process or result of embellishing something into a romantic ideal.
- 1979, Stanley Cavell, The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film, page 81:
- But this is merely the best cinematic instance of those romancings of history that have always tapped the popular purse […]