citificationn.
/ˌsɪtɪfᵻˈkeɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌsɪdᵻfəˈkeɪʃən/ The process or result of becoming citified.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > city > [noun] > making like
citification1891
1891 Weekly Wisconsin (Milwaukee) 24 Oct. 4/3 The change would be a tremendous step toward the citification of the country.
1906 C. W. Saleeby in Daily Chron. 23 Oct. 4/4 Keen observers are assured that civilisation is well named—it means city-fication.
1923 Glasgow Herald 26 May 4 American rural life has little tradition... Its citification is no great surprise.
1971 J. H. Gray Red Lights on Prairies v. 107 Yet the forces of citification were running wild.
1997 N.Y. Mag. 12 May 50/2 Kaplan grew up in bucolic Croton-on-Hudson, but his parents took an active role in their kids' citification.
2004 P. J. Michaels Meltdown iv. 76 The increasing extinction at the southern end of the butterfly's range is a result of the citification of the Pacific Coast.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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