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radicalize, v.|ˈrædɪkəlaɪz|
[f. radical a. + -ize.]
1. trans. To make radical in politics; to imbue with radical principles.
1830Ld. Ellenborough Diary 31 July (1881) II. 329 He said Yorkshire was quite radicalised by having four members. 1835Greville Mem. 9 Sept. (1875) III. xxix. 313 That the new councils will be Radical, and that their influence will radicalise the boroughs. 1966New Statesman 11 Feb. 185/2 Volunteers returning from two years living with poor people..find that their notions about the world have been radicalised. 1969N.Y. Rev. Books 30 Jan. 17/2 The strongest force for ‘radicalizing the campus’ may not, after all, be the Cossacks' whips, as many radical tacticians—including those at Columbia—have thought. 1972Maclean's Mag. Sept. 6/2 Being in prison for eight days..helped to radicalize me, as it did so many others. 1976National Observer (U.S.) 24 Apr. 17/1 After all, isn't economic freedom one very important kind of human freedom? Obviously it is, and yet many college students, most particularly the radicalized students of the late 1960s, have been unable to make the connection. 1979Dædalus Summer 19 It disrupts the delicate balance of pluralistic societies and radicalizes everyone.
2. intr. To become Radical in politics; to uphold Radical principles.
1823Blackw. Mag. XIV. 295 Many an honest squire..rapidly radicalizing against Mr. Canning. 1839Lady Lytton Cheveley (ed. 2) I. viii. 184 When it [the Reform Bill] and the Catholic question were both carried..Herbert Grimstone radicalized.
Hence ˈradicalized ppl. a.; ˈradicalizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.; radicaliˈzation.
1885G. Meredith Diana III. v. 92 Such is the condition of a rapidly Radicalizing country! 1889Pall Mall G. 27 July 2 A remarkable instance, this, of the Radicalising of the Liberal party. 1891Ibid. 28 Feb. 7 The rapid Radicalization..of the Tory party. 1905Daily Chron. 1 May 4/5 The united French Socialist party from now henceforward..will draw to itself..all the radicalising elements in the country. 1935Communist XIV. 884 (heading) The radicalization of the masses. Ibid. 885 The bourgeoisie..are alarmed at the rapid radicalization of the workers. 1953R. Bendix in Bendix & Lipsett Class, Status & Power 605 The radicalization of people who had not participated actively in party politics..gave a major impetus to the rise of fascism. 1960New Left Rev. Nov.–Dec. 7/2 This is a question of the radicalisation of Labour politics. 1969G. S. Jones in Cockburn & Blackburn Student Power 53 British students..are for the first time showing a certain radicalization. 1971Nature 19 Feb. 513/1 What might have been a valuable public discussion on the ethical problems of modern biology..seems to have tailed off into discussion of the process of radicalization of science and even some of the familiar problems of Vietnam. 1973Bulletin (Sydney) 25 Aug. 26/2 It was an amazing revelation and a radicalising one. 1977Time 27 June 21/1 As in so many other places, the suppression of legitimate, moderate opposition leads to radicalization. 1978New York 3 Apr. 34/3 Those themes also spoke to a significant section of the radicalizing, college-educated young, the members of Students for a Democratic Society. |