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- verb Present participle of
gallicize .
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Examples
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Irish familiar with the language and customs of this people, and the gallicizing of their names, as we find them in the parish registers in the Province of Quebec, shielded the bearers from British retaliation.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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The Catholic Press as we now have it did not exist until a later period, when the attacks of gallicizing Liberals and Voltaireans upon the Catholic Religion roused Catholics to defend the traditional doctrines.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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The writer is meanly admiring mean things; nothing could possibly be more fatuous than such half-hearted gallicizing.
Foreign Words. 1908
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