Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To make Spanish in form, style, or character.
- transitive verb To bring under Hispanic influence or control.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To render Spanish in character.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To give a Spanish form or character to.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To make
Spanish , as tocustoms ,culture ,pronunciation , orstyle . - verb transitive To
translate intoSpanish .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Put in more positive terms, the way the United States develops will depend crucially on its readiness to consciously Hispanicize itself and - together with Brazil - to see itself in the long term as the strongest link within a pan-American community.
Futurismic 2009
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Supposing that John McCain wins, Univision will be getting the best president their money could buy. all these years to Hispanicize the U.S., the guy would probably be doing all these things even if Univision hadn't donated one cent to his campaign.
The Two Malcontents 2008
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Exhibit A right now is Marginal Revolution, where NYT columnist and GMU economist Tyler Cowen’s desire to Hispanicize America in furtherance of Tyler’s own exotic aesthetic tastes has led him to claim that he’ll look for “useful” data on Mexican assimilation rates, then today ignore the enormous amount of useful data displayed in his own comments section, apparently on the grounds that it is not “useful” for furthering his policy desires.
VDARE.com: Blog Articles » Print » Economists And Refusing To See What’s Under Your Nose 2006
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Exhibit A right now is Marginal Revolution, where NYT columnist and GMU economist Tyler Cowen’s desire to Hispanicize America in furtherance of Tyler’s own exotic aesthetic tastes has led him to claim that he’ll look for “useful” data on Mexican assimilation rates, then today ignore the enormous amount of useful data displayed in his own comments section, apparently on the grounds that it is not “useful” for furthering his policy desires.
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Exhibit A right now is Marginal Revolution, where NYT columnist and GMU economist Tyler Cowen’s desire to Hispanicize America in furtherance of Tyler’s own exotic aesthetic tastes has led him to claim that he’ll look for “useful” data on Mexican assimilation rates, then today ignore the enormous amount of useful data displayed in his own comments section, apparently on the grounds that it is not “useful” for furthering his policy desires.
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