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Etymology

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sonnet +‎ -ize

Verb

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sonnetize (third-person singular simple present sonnetizes, present participle sonnetizing, simple past and past participle sonnetized)

  1. (intransitive) To compose sonnets.
  2. (transitive) To convert into sonnet form.
  3. (transitive) To write a sonnet about.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for sonnetize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)