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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
foreignize .
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Examples
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The Countess was immensely admired, and though her sisters said that she was 'foreignized' overmuch, they clung to her desperately.
Evan Harrington — Volume 1 George Meredith 1868
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The Countess was immensely admired, and though her sisters said that she was 'foreignized' overmuch, they clung to her desperately.
Evan Harrington — Complete George Meredith 1868
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The Countess was immensely admired, and though her sisters said that she was 'foreignized' overmuch, they clung to her desperately.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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Just like the old days when he would be out there with Mizner and the guys, running along the sidewalks of Kernsville in pretend slow motion as the half-miler Benny Vaughn did his mock-serious announcer, giving them all funny foreignized names to make them sound more glamorous, doing the play-by-play as they made agonistic faces and leaned histrionically toward the imaginary finish line.
Again to Carthage Jr. John L. Parker 2007
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Those absentees have their reward in profligate sons, and foreignized daughters, in giving them manners ridiculous to the people of the Continent, and disgusting to their countrymen -- morals adopting the grossness of continental life, and general habits rendered utterly unfit for a return to their country, and, of course, for any rational and meritorious conduct, until they sink into the grave.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843 Various
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The general impression is, that in order to civilize and Christianize the African, he must be foreignized.
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We are getting foreignized rapidly and with facility.
The Innocents Abroad — Volume 02 Mark Twain 1872
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We are getting foreignized rapidly and with facility.
The Innocents Abroad Mark Twain 1872
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After explaining to Emma that Canton was “not nearly so foreignized as Shanghai,” May-ling wrote that the Suns’ mountain house looked down on soldiers’ barracks, my brother-in-law’s soldiers.
The Last Empress Hannah Pakula 2009
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