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westernize, v.|ˈwɛstənaɪz|
[f. western a. + -ize.]
a. trans. To make western in character; esp. to make (an eastern country or race) more western in regard to its institutions, ideas, etc.
1842Tait's Mag. IX. 617 She herself pleads to having become so Westernized, as no longer to be a competent painter of Western peculiarities. 1848Eerie Laird 247 A remnant of it [sc. the palace], rather clumsily Westernized, is now the official habitation of the British resident at Delhi. 1888Sat. Rev. 22 Sept. 340/1 Bulgaria is being..more and more Westernized.
b. intr. To become western in character. rare.
1903L. F. Ward Pure Sociol. 33 Some of the nations of the East, notably Japan, are rapidly westernizing.
Hence ˈwesternized ppl. a.; ˈwesternizer, one who makes a country or culture more Western; ˈwesternizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.; also ˌwesterniˈzation.
1893Sketch 1 Feb. 38/2 The westernising of India is..shown in the most curious ways. 1900Speaker 9 June 284/2 The Young Turkish or Westernizing party. 1903Fairbairn in Camb. Mod. Hist. II. xix. 701 He regarded Aristotle as a westernised Mohammadan rather than as a Greek. 1904Daily Chron. 19 Feb. 3/3 The process that is generally called the Westernisation of Japan. 1935Times Lit. Suppl. 2 May 287/2 French and English incursions..entered [Afghanistan] from the East, and..carried Dravidian ideas with them against that tide of Westernizers of whom Alexander was one of the earliest. 1958Listener 27 Nov. 864/2 Arab Westernizers. 1964Economist 13 June 1251/2 Ch'en Tu-hsiu was a westerniser. 1976Times Lit. Suppl. 23 Apr. 490/3 The dispute between Slavophiles and Westernizers, originally a literary controversy, spawned a vast secondary literature, first in Russia and then in the wider world. |