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Webster 1828 Edition


Romancing

ROMAN'CING

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Definition 2024


romancing

romancing

English

Verb

romancing

  1. present participle of romance

Noun

romancing (plural romancings)

  1. 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 []