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Mar 25, 2019
This week’s themePeople who became verbs
This week’s words
grandisonize
Charles Grandison escorting Harriet Byron
Engraving: Isaac Taylor, 1778
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Grandisonize
PRONUNCIATION:
(gran-DIS-uh-nyz) 
MEANING:
verb tr.: To escort in a courteous manner.
ETYMOLOGY:
After Sir Charles Grandison, the model gentleman hero of Samuel Richardson’s 1753 novel The History of Sir Charles Grandison. Earliest documented use: 1824.
USAGE:
“And now will your ladyship permit me to have the honour of Grandisonizing you into the next apartment?”
Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine (Scotland); Jun 1824.
Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine (Scotland); Jun 1824.
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