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1846 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. in Wks. II. 123/2 Thou speakest bad Chinese: thy native tongue is strangely occidentalised.

1870 O. W. Holmes Mechanism (1888) 113 To occidentalise and modernise the Asiatic modes of Thought which have come down to us.

1907 Sat. Rev. 23 Mar. 350 Outside the Persians themselves some among high authorities hold that no form of representative government is suited to Persia, or indeed any other Oriental country that has not occidentalised itself like Japan.

1978 Mil. Affairs 42 142/1 The former prevented the orientalization of the West, while the latter marked the beginning of an attempt to occidentalize the East.

1991 S. Faludi Backlash ii. viii. 214 The first set of slides are almost all photos of Asian women whose features he has Occidentalized—making them, in Harvey's opinion, ‘more feminine’.

1893 F. W. L. Adams New Egypt 13 The result of his Occidentalising taste, at once so crude and so rudimentary.

1929 Pacific Affairs 2 600 The external phenomenon of this occidentalizing process of the Orient which has been going on for a half century throughout Eastern Asia.

1978 Science 19 May 756/1 Such criticism questions the ‘occidentalizing dynamics of development and development policies’—which finds expression, for example, in the prestigious aerospace and atomic programs of a country like India.