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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

Last week in the Austrian Parliament deputies Kold and Abrams of Higher Tyrol, which is still Austrian, luridly described the sufferings of Lower Tyrolese under Il Duce's regime of impetuous Italianization.

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

One of these timber merchants presented an example of Italianization.

From The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 by Henry Baerlein

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