bourgeoisifiedadj.
/bʊəʒˈwɑːzᵻfʌɪd/, /bɔːʒˈwɑːzᵻfʌɪd/, U.S. /ˌbʊrʒˈwɑzəˌfaɪd/ That has been rendered bourgeois, or converted to a bourgeois outlook or mode of life.Originally chiefly in Marxist and Marxist–Leninist discourse.
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society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > [adjective] > conversion or converted to
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embourgeoisé1946
1920 tr. V. Lenin ‘Left Wing’ Communism vi. 37 To leave the insufficiently-developed or backward working masses to the influence of reactionary leaders, agents of the bourgeoisie, labor aristocrats—‘bourgeoisified workers’.
1937 ‘C. Caudwell’ Illusion & Reality iv. 75 The bourgeoisie and the bourgeoisified nobility.
1992 D. Spoto Laurence Olivier xv. 370 We must face the combined weight of imperialist expansion, massing behind the most sophisticated technology of destruction and the active opposition of bourgeoisified proletariats.
2001 A. S. Markovits & S. L. Hellerman Offside i. 39 It was the two most bourgeoisified societies of the nineteenth century, Great Britain and the United States, that founded organized professional team sports played and enjoyed by the masses in their own countries.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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