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Italianization

American  
[i-tal-yuhn-uhz-ay-shuhn, -ahyz-] / ɪˌtæl jən əzˈeɪ ʃən, -aɪz- /

noun

  1. the process of making or becoming Italian.


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“It’s bunk,” Francis said, using an Italianization of a Spanish expression.

From New York Times Feb. 5, 2023

Forsaken or not, the stubborn Tyrolese still resisted Italianization, and Benito Mussolini must have reluctantly concluded that these Germans would always be Germans.

From Time Magazine Archive

In 1923 a determined program of oppressive "Italianization" was inaugurated.

From Time Magazine Archive

Daniel Maguire, theologian, Marquette University, and a former priest: There is a certain amount of what I call "Italianization" going on in this country.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Italianization of English poetry had been effected, or at least begun, by the publication of Tottel's Miscellany in 1557; on this, the creative side of English literature, the Italian influence was distinctly romantic.

From A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism by Spingarn, Joel Elias

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