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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of mannerize.

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Examples

  • Of course a writer of fiction is bound to make the observation of varieties of temperament a duty; it is his material; if he becomes isolated and self-absorbed, his work becomes narrow and mannerized; and it is true, too, that, with most writers, the collision of mind with mind is what produces the brightest sparks.

    From a College Window Arthur Christopher Benson 1893

  • Journal "from her pictures; but, if I remember right, these are coarse things, and give no just notion of her pictures, which are distinguished for elegance and refinement; a little mannerized, but she is improving in that respect.

    At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe Margaret Fuller 1830

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