Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To make Occidental in character, outlook, or way of life.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To render occidental; cause to conform to Occidental customs or modes of thought.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make western in character
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Examples
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Putting Psychology into easy terms, stopping to explain things I do not understand very well myself, struggling through the medium of a strange language, and trying to occidentalize the oriental mind has been a stiff proposition for one whose learning was never her long suit!
The Lady of the Decoration Little, Frances, 1863-1941 1906
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Putting Psychology into easy terms, stopping to explain things I do not understand very well myself, struggling through the medium of a strange language, and trying to occidentalize the oriental mind has been a stiff proposition for one whose learning was never her long suit!
The Lady of the Decoration Frances Little 1902
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West be too ambitious to occidentalize the native Christian community, ignorant of, or indifferent to, the grand possibilities of thought and of life which lie in Eastern character and teaching.
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Setting the question of Christianity aside, experience shows that the attempt to orientalize Occidentals may prove no less disastrous than the attempt to occidentalize Orientals, and that to transport Eastern mysticism to the West is to vulgarize it and to produce a debased form of occultism that frequently ends in moral deterioration or mental derangement. [
Secret Societies And Subversive Movements Nesta H. Webster 1918
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