Italianization love

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  • noun the conversion of a non-Italian culture to an Italian one

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Italianize +‎ -ation

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Examples

  • They have, of course, come a long way since Mussolini required the Italianization of names in the country's German-, Slovenian- and Croatian-speaking border regions.

    Playing the Name Game in Italy Francis X. Rocca 2011

  • By exploring that dream in distinctly Italian-American terms, the movies "succeeded in delivering nothing less than the Italianization of American culture."

    Taking the Cannoli Laura Landro 2012

  • The Italianization of these surnames may result in various surviving intermediate forms between standard Latin and Italian variants:

    The girl who kicked the publisher's keister for misplacing an apostrophe Peter Rozovsky 2010

  • Hotel Review, an English trade publication, was pleased: the “extensive Italianization of our hotels would now be checked.”

    Human Smoke Nicholson Baker 2008

  • Initiation of a rigid policy of Italianization in South Tyrol (Upper Adige).

    1923, Jan. 14 2001

  • The Italianization of the Adriatic's eastern seaboard would result, moreover, in raising a barrier against the legitimate expansion of the Balkan Slavs and would end the Serbian dream of an outlet to the sea.

    Italy at War and the Allies in the West 1918

  • One of these timber merchants presented an example of Italianization.

    The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 Henry Baerlein 1917

  • It is unnecessary to follow the fortunes of the papacy after the thirteenth century; the lesson of the French influence, of the schism, of the Italianization of the fifteenth-century popes, is but too clear.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

  • And don't even mention the fricchettone look (an Italianization of freak out plus the - one augmentative ending): that's only for latter-day figli dei fiori ` flower children 'absorbed in poesia beat.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 3 1984

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