classicizing

English

Verb

classicizing

1. present participle and gerund of classicize

Adjective

classicizing (comparative more classicizing, superlative most classicizing)

1. Adopting a Classical style.
   • 2012, Barbara Newman, “Ailments of the Tongue”, in London Review of Books, volume 34, number 6:

     In his classicising Troilus and Criseyde, set with pagan aplomb in ancient Troy, he approvingly quotes the rhetorician Geoffrey of Vinsauf’s New Poetics.