单词 | anglicizing |
释义 | anglicizingn. The action or process of anglicization (esp. of language); an instance of this, esp. an anglicized form of a word or name. ΚΠ ?1710 tr. E. Lhuyd Welsh Pref. to Glossogr. or Archeologia Britannica 21 Magh, is a Field in the Irish acccording [sic] to their constant Orthography, though in the Anglicizing of the Names they have now changed it into Moy. 1839 C. A. Murray Trav. N. Amer. I. 320 I believe I can justly claim the invention or anglicising of this word. 1939 H. H. Henson Let. 14 Dec. (1950) 115 We have many similar Anglicisings of Latin, e.g. graduate, literate, oblate. 1991 ‘J. Bow’ Jane's Journey vii. 40 On the magazine, Jane's main task was to wrestle with the anglicising of indifferent American short stories. 1999 P. M. Krebs Gender, Race, & Writing of Empire v. 121 [He] could be anti-imperialist and yet see the Anglicizing of South Africa as natural and good. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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