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highness
English
Alternative forms
- highnesse (archaic)
- 'ighness (pronunciation spelling)
Etymology
From Middle English hyghnesse; equivalent to high +? -ness.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ha?n?s/
- Rhymes: -a?n?s
Noun
highness (usually uncountable, plural highnesses)
- The state of being high.
- 1672, George Swinnock, The Incomparableness of God
- 'It is as high as heaven, what canst thou do?' It is as the highnesses of heaven: take all the heights and elevations, all the spheres and altitudes of heaven, and try if thou canst reach them with thy short arm; yea, climb up the highest storeys, the loftiest pinnacles, […]
- 1672, George Swinnock, The Incomparableness of God
Translations
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characterize
English
Alternative forms
- characterise
Etymology
From Medieval Latin characterizare, from Ancient Greek ??????????? (kharakt?ríz?, “to designate by a characteristic mark”), from ???????? (kharakt?r, “a mark, character”). Synchronically analyzable as character +? -ize.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?k???kt??a?z/, /?kæ??kt??a?z/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?kæ??kt??a?z/
- Hyphenation: char?ac?ter?ize
Verb
characterize (third-person singular simple present characterizes, present participle characterizing, simple past and past participle characterized)
- (transitive) To depict someone or something a particular way (often negative).
- (transitive) To be typical of.
- (transitive) To determine the characteristics of.
Derived terms
- characterization
- subcharacterize
Translations
Further reading
- characterize in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- characterize in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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