conservatizev.
/kənˈsəːvᵻtʌɪz/, U.S. /kənˈsərvəˌtaɪz/ 1. intransitive. Originally: to conserve something. Later: to make a person or thing (politically) conservative; (also) to become (more) conservative.
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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > preservation from injury or destruction > preserve from injury or destruction [verb (transitive)] > preserve in existence or maintain > institutions or conditions
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > British politics > British party politics > [verb (transitive)] > make a Tory of
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1864 Church & St. Rev. V. 65 Now, to conservatize is to preserve our old institutions unimpaired.
1959 G. Tyler New Philos. for Labor 9/2 Money still has the power to conservatize and to corrupt.
1979 Associated Press Newswire (Nexis) 17 May Nothing conservatizes like responsibility.
1996 Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch (Nexis) 19 Nov. As the Democratic Party has liberalized, so the Republican Party has conservatized.
2. transitive. To make (a person or thing) conservative, or more conservative.
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1869 Times 12 Jan. 4 The new voters divided themselves between the two political parties, and (if I may coin a word) became Conservatized.
1924 Times 29 Jan. 7/4 He believed profoundly that the present Government, Socialistic as it began, was going to be strongly conservatized by having responsibilities to bear.
2008 Heritage Found. Rep. (Nexis) 19 Feb. a17 The question, then, is whether conservatives can conservatize the welfare state without abolishing it.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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