Hellenize
verb (used with object)
to make Greek in character.
Hellenization
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a word derived from
Hellenize.
Example Sentences
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The Seleucids exerted their influence through Hellenization, the spread of Greek art, architecture, and religion.
From National Geographic ● Dec. 7, 2023
The Apocrypha's texts make it clear that the battle against Hellenization was in fact a kulturkampf among the Jews themselves.
From Slate ● Nov. 28, 2013
The division became very apparent in the time of the Hellenization which preceded the Maccabaean revolt; at that period the name of Pharisees, i.e., the Separated, came into vogue for the party of the religious.
From Prolegomena by Julius Wellhausen
Hellenizing first the Eastern Mediterranean, and then taking captive her rude conqueror, the Hellenization of the Roman and early Christian world was the result.
From The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization by Ellwood Patterson Cubberley
Was the Hellenization of Rome which ensued a good thing?
From The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization by Ellwood Patterson Cubberley
