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  • There is not much that can be called Romanizing in their books; but they have the advantage of well-arranged, well-edited, and well-printed books.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

  • Palmer of Worcester in his dreary "Narrative of Events" objected strongly to Ward's "Romanizing" tendencies.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

  • Any higher view of the authority of symbols is unprotestant and essentially Romanizing.

    Archive 2009-07-01 2009

  • A side note - apparently it is believed that this name (which Johan Bessler took upon himself) may have been created by making a wheel -- putting the letters of the alphabet around the wheel, picking the letters opposite Bessler and (Orffyre) and then Romanizing them with the US as they did in Latin (which was a common practice in the days of Bessler's life -- late 1700s).

    Novel Nonsense deep_bluze 2004

  • He got in trouble, apparently, because he forgot to edit the sermon adequately--a general remark about Romanizing priests in the pulpit was taken as referring to the church's previous incumbent...

    The Progress of Morals: Day 7 2006

  • He got in trouble, apparently, because he forgot to edit the sermon adequately--a general remark about Romanizing priests in the pulpit was taken as referring to the church's previous incumbent...

    The Little Professor: 2006

  • The movement was seen by many people as a Romanizing tendency.

    Concise Dictionary of Religion 1993

  • -- The most important result of the Gallic wars of Cæsar was the Romanizing of Gaul.

    General History for Colleges and High Schools Philip Van Ness Myers

  • As they had lost all hope of resisting him, they calmly accepted the situation, and the foundation of the subsequent Romanizing of the west of Europe was laid.

    The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic Arthur Gilman

  • Is does not occur to us that he would by doing so have been in danger of Romanizing the

    International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 9, August 26, 1850 Various

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