byronize

Etymology

From Byron + -ize.

verb

  1. To make something, or someone, more Byronic“(17–20) No longer trying to Byronize her heroines only to discover that female commitments alienate them from the romance of Byronic alienation, Hemans makes Byron accountable to her values. Recasting Childe Harold is a recurring[…]”
  2. To look at the world as if one were a Byronic character“My dear, I remember men who Byronized themselves to death. I have seen much; I have seen men who, for example, took a fancy to peasants, and ended with drinking vodka in peasant dramshops. There is no measure with us, and there cannot[…]”