bourgeoisificationn.
/bʊəˌʒwɑːzᵻfᵻˈkeɪʃn/, /bɔːˌʒwɑːzᵻfᵻˈkeɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌbʊrˌʒwɑzəfəˈkeɪʃən/ The action or fact of making or becoming bourgeois; conversion to a bourgeois outlook or mode of life. Cf. embourgeoisement n.Originally chiefly in Marxist and Marxist–Leninist discourse.
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bourgeoisification1927
embourgeoisement1937
embourgeoisification1973
1927 Communist (Chicago) July–Aug. 290 When we speak of this ‘bourgeoisification of the working class’ let us not look only on the upper strata of the working class.
1938 ‘G. Orwell’ Homage to Catalonia v. 71 A general ‘bourgeoisification’, a deliberate destruction of the equalitarian spirit of the first few months of the revolution, was taking place.
1957 R. Giraud Unheroic Hero in Novels Stendhal, Balzac, & Flaubert iv. 161 The decline, sentimental atrophy or ‘bourgeoisification’ of Frédéric Moreau [in Flaubert's L'Éducation Sentimentale].
2000 Independent (Nexis) 16 Mar. 28 Supporters will be encouraged to express themselves with a freedom apparently mislaid during the recent bourgeoisification of football.
2012 M. Mitchell Origins Christian Democracy i. 16 The significance of Rhenish-Westphalian liberal Catholicism was clearly evident in the late nineteenth-century bourgeoisification of the party's leadership.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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