constitutionalise

1. 1.

   incorporate into a constitution, make constitutional

   “A woman's right to an abortion was constitutionalized in the 1970's”

   Synonymsconstitutionalize

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Other forms of constitutionalise

past tense

constitutionalised·

present participle

constitutionalising·

third person

constitutionalises·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about constitutionalise

What does constitutionalise mean?

constitutionalise means "incorporate into a constitution, make constitutional".

How many syllables are in constitutionalise?

constitutionalise has 7 syllables: con-sti-tu-ti-o-na-lise. The stress falls on "o".

What is another word for constitutionalise?

Close synonyms include constitutionalize. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is constitutionalise a common word?

constitutionalise is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.