Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To make republican.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To convert to republican principles; render republican. Also spelled
republicanise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To change, as a state, into a republic; to republican principles
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To convert (a state etc.) to
republican principles.
Etymologies
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Examples
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They are colonized here, from commissioner in charge down to private, in a cheek-by-jowl fashion that shows their ability to unbend and republicanize on occasion.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876 Various
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But even Marsh expressed the hope that Americans would not, with malice prepense, go about to republicanize our orthography and our syntax, our grammars and our dictionaries, our nursery hymns (sic) and our Bibles to the point of actual separation.
Chapter 1. Introductory. 2. The Academic Attitude Henry Louis 1921
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It may be true also that they aspire to republicanize the whole of South Africa, and free it of the Imperial influence; that would be a cause of enmity as between them and those who desire to preserve the Imperial connection, but it is no ground for reproach.
The Transvaal from Within A Private Record of Public Affairs 1896
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Many years before the Raid Mr. Kruger had a well-defined policy to republicanize South Africa, and the Uitlanders of the Transvaal were quite alive to it, as may be gathered by reference to their newspapers.
The Transvaal from Within A Private Record of Public Affairs 1896
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To republicanize South Africa, to secure the support of the majority of the white inhabitants, and yet to yield no whit of power to those by whose aid he would achieve his object, would indeed be carrying to sublime heights the policy of 'something for nothing.'
The Transvaal from Within A Private Record of Public Affairs 1896
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It has been a long and gradual process to thoroughly republicanize the
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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It has been a long and gradual process to thoroughly republicanize the
Pages from an Old Volume of Life; a collection of essays, 1857-1881 Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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-- At Marseilles, write the agents, [3377] "in spite of every effort and our ardent desire to republicanize the Marseilles people, our pains and fatigues are nearly all fruitless ....
The French Revolution - Volume 3 Hippolyte Taine 1860
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"For the federal government [on its own] to try to republicanize Canada through the back door … would, to my mind at least, be contrary to the inferred principles underlying Section
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Michael Valpy 2009
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