citizeningn.
/ˈsɪtᵻzənɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈsɪdᵻzənɪŋ/, /ˈsɪdᵻsənɪŋ/ Originally U.S.
Admission to citizenship. Also: the study or practice of being a citizen.
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1890 Home Missionary (N.Y.) Apr. 528 The citizening of the five tribes [in Indian territory] and statehood are inevitable.
1915 Notables of West (Press Ref. Libr.) II. 217/1 Put him through a course of book-learning..law-practicing and prominent citizening.
1920 Civic Club Bull. (Philadelphia) Oct. 4/1 We must work at citizening, ourselves, or the job will always be poorly done.
2006 P. Zarrow Creating Chinese Modernity iii. 79 ‘Citizening’ was about rights and duties.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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