nakedize

English

Alternative forms

• nakedise

Etymology

naked +‎ -ize

Verb

nakedize (third-person singular simple present nakedizes, present participle nakedizing, simple past and past participle nakedized)

1. To go naked.
   • 1858, Thomas Jefferson Hogg, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley - Volume 2, page 289:

     It was alleged, moreover, that the practive of stripping young persons sometimes is eminently conducive to their health, to strength of body, symmetry, beauty, and to morality, and virtue ; and that even grown persons may derive much benefit from remaining some hours, in mild weather, without their clothes. It was most manifest that the children liked to nakedize—such was the term of art—exceedingly; but it was something new and different from the ordinary routine of jackets, trowsers, and petticoats; — in a word, it was a change.

   • 1935, Frances Winwar, The Romantic Rebels, page 156:

     For several hours during the day they were stripped and made to nakedize that their bodies might receive the benison of nature's light and air. The parents, too, nakedized in the privacy of their rooms.

   • 1936, Robert Palfrey Utter, Mrs. Gwendolyn (Bridges) Needham, Pamela's Daughters, page 392:

     They were allowed to "nakedize" as a privilege on a theory of "philosophic nakedness".

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