romancing

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Verb

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romancing

  1. present participle and gerund of romance

Noun

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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 []