Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To render foreign; adapt to foreign ideas.
- To become foreign.
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- verb transitive To make
foreign .
Etymologies
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foreign + -ize
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Examples
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He is wanted for no other reason than that of teaching the Chinese to foreignize as much as he can, teaching the leaders of the people to strive to modify national life, and to raise public conduct and administration to the best standards of the West.
Across China on Foot Edwin John Dingle 1926
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To the Chinese, moreover, all white men are "Christians" and "foreign devils," and all alike stand for the effort to foreignize and despoil China.
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_We may well ask whether this insweeping immigration is to foreignize us, or we are to Americanize it.
Aliens or Americans? 1895
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