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- noun the
conversion of a non-Italianculture to anItalian one
Etymologies
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Examples
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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
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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
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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
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Hotel Review, an English trade publication, was pleased: the “extensive Italianization of our hotels would now be checked.”
Human Smoke Nicholson Baker 2008
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Initiation of a rigid policy of Italianization in South Tyrol (Upper Adige).
1923, Jan. 14 2001
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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.
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One of these timber merchants presented an example of Italianization.
The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 Henry Baerlein 1917
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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
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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.
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