romanticise
verbEtymology From romantic + -ise.
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UK, Nonstandard Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of romanticize.
- JK Rowling says that “girls are very apt to romanticise” the antihero, and reveals that she had been forced to pour “cold common sense” on the startling number of readers who fall for the arrogant, unscrupulous bully Draco Malfoy in her Harry Potter books.2014 December 22, Alison Flood, “JK Rowling ‘unnerved’ by girls who fall for Hogwarts bully Draco Malfoy”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 25 Mar 2016:
- Derived terms
- deromanticise