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Italianization

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[i-tal-yuhn-uhz-ay-shuhn, -ahyz-] / ɪˌtæl yən 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

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

Myron Whitney is a name needing no Italianization.

From Famous Singers of To-day and Yesterday by Lahee, Henry C.

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