bourgeoisifyv.
/bʊəʒˈwɑːzᵻfʌɪ/, /bɔːʒˈwɑːzᵻfʌɪ/, U.S. /ˌbʊrʒˈwɑzəˌfaɪ/ transitive. To make bourgeois; to convert to a bourgeois outlook or mode of life. Also intransitive: to become bourgeois.Originally chiefly in Marxist and Marxist–Leninist discourse.
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society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > bourgeois [verb (transitive)] > covert to bourgeois
bourgeoisify1927
1927 Communist (Chicago) July–Aug. 290 It is absolutely false and anti-Leninist to say that American imperialism has been able to bourgeoisify, to corrupt, the whole working class.
1936 T. A. Jackson Dialectics vi. 393 It was..at one time the favourite theme of English schoolbooks of historical edification how ‘Peter the Great civilised’ (i.e., bourgeoisified) the imperial Court of Russia.
1991 C. Sellers Market Revol. xiii. 408 Cotton capitalism bourgeoisified planter society.
1993 V. Sage Mirror for Larks 33 Clapham, I thought, since it was rising socially and bourgeoisifying, was a good place for a really first-rate specialist shop.
2002 J. E. Haynes City as Subj. i. 17 Even as Western studio photographers were bourgeoisifying the Victorian parlor, their Japanese counterparts were nationalizing it.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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