单词 | southernize |
释义 | southernizev. 1. a. transitive. Frequently with capital initial. To cause (a person or group of people) to adopt a character, style, outlook, etc., typical of the south of a country or region, esp. the Southern states of the United States; to make southern in form or character. ΚΠ 1857 J. Young Autobiogr. Pioneer xiv. 240 A great many people attended, among the rest, a little Yankee, who had been southernized. 1909 J. W. Grant Out of Darkness xxiv. 298 We are fast southernizing the entire nation, so that the negro will be no better treated North than South. 1919 P. Grainger Let. 12 Mar. in All-round Man (1994) 46 The Scandinavian love of non-combative sport (ski-ing, skating, swimming, bodily culture) was gradually Southernized into the combative & bloody bullbaiting, boxing [etc.]. 1972 Polity 4 377 George Wallace's effort to Southernize certain sections of the North. 2003 K. Cauthen I don't care what Bible Says vi. 113 The values of the Republican party have been Southernized. b. transitive. To put (a text) into or amend (a linguistic form) according to a dialect characteristic of or predominant in the south. Chiefly with reference to southern Middle English. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [verb (transitive)] > make southern southernize1867 society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > textual criticism > version of text > create version of text [verb (transitive)] southernize1867 1867 Hymns Virgin Pref. p. x Some of the poems bear traces of having been southernized from a Northern original. 1880 S. J. Herrtage in Sege of Melayne 139 (note) The scribe has southernised all the riming words in this stanza. 1887 Athenæum 15 Jan. 92/3 A copy, partially southernized in language, of a work originally written in pure northern dialect. 1974 Rev. Eng. Stud. 25 393 At l. 17 Lambeth retains ‘mykell’, which Lt has Southernised to ‘myche’. ΚΠ 1890 Cent. Dict. Southernize, to become southern, or like that which is southern. Derivatives ˈsouthernizing n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [adjective] > Indo-European > Germanic > English > of varieties of English north country1673 Mancunian1771 cockney1776 southernizing1861 Hiberno-English1864 Elizabethan1869 southernized1873 Welsh English1877 Norfolk1889 Tyneside1896 broguish1899 Anglo-Welsh1905 Oxford1928 Novocastrian1969 Konglish1975 Singlish1986 mockney1989 1861 Southern Chivalry iii. 27 (heading) The Southernizing of Kansas. 1871 W. W. Skeat in Joseph of Arimathie Pref. p. xi The southernizing tendencies of the scribe. 1997 Times Union (Albany, N.Y.) (Nexis) 3 Nov. a11 If we're really seeing the Southernizing of America,..then maybe there's some hope for the process in a recent conference here on racial issues. 2007 D. Dochuk in M. A. Noll & L. E. Harlow Relig. & Amer. Politics xiii. 299 A key southernizing force that Explo '72 obliged Egerton to write in the first place: southern evangelicalism. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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