Afrikanerizev.
/afrᵻˈkɑːnərʌɪz/, U.S. /ˌæfrəˈkɑnəˌraɪz/, South African English /ʌfrəˈkɑːnəraɪz/ transitive. To bring under the influence or rule of Afrikaners; to cause to resemble an Afrikaner.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Africa > native or inhabitant of Southern Africa > [verb (transitive)] > Afrikaner
Afrikanderize1900
Afrikanerize1945
1945 R. F. A. Hoernlé & I. D. MacCrone Race & Reason vii. 92 But, for all that, they were detribalized, Europeanized, indeed Afrikanerized, in virtue of their assimilating their masters' language and European ways of life.
1960 20th Cent. July 63 The Nationalists sought to Afrikanerize the white trades unions.
1991 Washington Post Mag. 27 Jan. 26/1 Broederbond leaders discussed a propaganda campaign that would Afrikanerize English-speaking South Africans.
1999 Econ. Hist. Rev. 52 94 The railways were Afrikanerized during the 1950s.
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Afriˈkanerizing n. and adj.
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1933 Fortn. Rev. Oct. 423 He knows that his victory is won, and that the ‘risk’ attached to confluence is now no longer the anglicizing of the Boer, but the Afrikanerizing of the Briton.
1947 Forum (S. Afr.) 5 Apr. 5/2 The Afrikanerising of the cities..had gone ahead by leaps and bounds.
1952 E. H. Burrows Overberg Outspan vii. 190 The afrikanerizing influence she exerted on her husband.
1985 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 23 Oct. 10 He is a former chairman of the once-secret and exclusive, and white, Afrikaner Brotherhood. The ‘Brothers’, as they are called, work for the ultimate ‘Afrikanerizing’ of South Africa.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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