Italianization
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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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
Nonetheless, some political observers last week were starting to speculate about still another Italianization: the possible erosion of central-government authority.
From Time Magazine Archive
Beside Italian and English, Maltese have a language of their own and this the British Government has attempted to encourage as a means of fighting further Italianization.
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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