Meaning of bachelorize | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To make into a bachelor; to deprive of a spouse.
2. To confer a bachelor's degree on.
3. To make or become typical of a bachelor.
4. To live without neither spouse nor children; to live alone or with other single people.
5. To live the life of a bachelor; to socialize without a wife.

Examples

“To eradicate all domestic and patriotic sympathies with home and "their own, their native land," and in order to have in them a militia that would feel and fight for him alone, the Pope bachelorized the whole ministry about the termination of the eleventh century.”

“Nick also wrote that Elena bachelorized him for four weeks last spring when she journeyed to Honduras to visit family and friends.”

“Some of the newly bachelorized men were directed to reside in an apartment building built specifically to house ten or twelve of these divorcees, all scrambling to prove themselves obedient enough to "get new assignments" or maybe, if they were truly optimistic, to get their old families back.”

“as if Sancho were anybody they pleased, and not that very Sancho Panza handed about in print all the world over, as Sampson Carrasco told me, who, at least, has been bachelorized at Salamanca ;”

“Mr. Sater wishes it distinctly understood that he belongs to the class of '95 and was rightfully bachelorized therein, but legally adopted by '97.”

“Man needs woman's refining care to keep him from becoming bachelorized.”

“My living room is what you'd expect, hardwood floors, simple grassy-brown furniture, oversized television, a fireplace. A former married home that's been “bachelorized,” according to Grant's wife, Audrey.”

“I suppose though your feelings have become so bachelorized that you can scarcely realize my pleasure.”

“Eleven months after being widowed I decided it was time to bachelorize my home.”

“They of course live very cheaply, because these communities are composed of men bachelorizing together, they have no wives or children to support, as women are not allowed to leave China.”

“Why shouldn't we two take a house and bachelorize?”

“The boy was no longer dependent upon his father—he could bachelorize with other lads or go into lodgings.”

““You trifler!” Mrs. Armstrong was meanwhile saying. “I want you to talk seriously on this subject. It is high time that you solemnly attended to it. Do you mean to bachelorize your life out? […]"”

“In the same town a country squire, a member of the county society, a scion of an old and honorable family, was guilty of the indiscretion of marrying a schoolteacher. He can lunch and club and bachelorize with any gentleman in the county, but society closes its doors absolutely upon his unfortunate wife ; and she is shut up to herself, her husband and her children.”

“Eventually he agreed to 'bachelorize off comfortably guided by the wind of his own daily will', going to Dumbleton, Oxford and then London.”

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