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1819 J. Clopper Fragm. Hist. Bawlfredonia 13 Translated into French, and then into English, the phraseology must be both modernised and westernised, in a great degree.

1842 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 9 617 She herself pleads to having become so Westernized, as no longer to be a competent painter of Western peculiarities.

1848 Eerie Laird 247 A remnant of it [sc. the palace], rather clumsily Westernized, is now the official habitation of the British resident at Delhi.

1888 Sat. Rev. 22 Sept. 340/1 Bulgaria is being..more and more Westernized.

1904 J. N. Bink Recoll. Boer Prisoner-of-war v. 60 When you start to Westernise the Easterling, he soon loses his individuality.

1951 Billboard 27 Oct. 58/2 An attempt was made to Westernize the crooner by having him enter in cowboy trappings on a horse.

1991 D. Halberstam Next Cent. ii. 41 The government has already adapted a harsh, cold-shower method of trying to westernize the economy in the shortest possible time.

1881 J. F. Graff Let. in Philadelphia Press (1882) 6 Jan. 7/1 In order to Westernize rapidly, one must get away from the railroads.

1891 Salt Lake Tribune 6 Sept. 3/6 The man is one of the English stockmen that Westernize without Americanizing.

1903 L. F. Ward Pure Sociol. 33 Some of the nations of the East, notably Japan, are rapidly westernizing.

1963 Jet 8 Aug. 58 Westernizing with leaps and bounds, Nigerians adopted another European innovation—the confidence game.

2008 J. K. Yuann & J. Inch Supertrends of Future China ii. v. 156 From bicycles to cars, lane-houses to high-rises, myna birds to miniature pinschers, Mandarins to MBAs, China is Westernizing at an incredible pace.

1847 H. Bushnell Barbarism First Danger 21 No western or westernized man, coming directly out from the scenes of western life, is qualified..to estimate their social standing and prospects.

1903 Fairbairn in Cambr. Mod. Hist. II. xix. 701 He regarded Aristotle as a westernised Mohammadan rather than as a Greek.

2005 T. Hall Salaam Brick Lane v. 115 Further down Green Street we passed a more Westernised crowd—young British Asian girls in trendy garb.

1891 W. T. A. Barber Let. 26 July in Anti-foreign Riots in China (1892) ii. 124 His countrymen despise him as uneducated, or even hate him as a Westerniser.

1935 Times Lit. Suppl. 2 May 287/2 French and English incursions..entered [Afghanistan] from the East, and..carried Dravidian ideas with them against that tide of Westernizers of whom Alexander was one of the earliest.

1976 Times Lit. Suppl. 23 Apr. 490/3 The dispute between Slavophiles and Westernizers, originally a literary controversy, spawned a vast secondary literature, first in Russia and then in the wider world.

2003 New Yorker 9 June 98/3 Stephen's father, James, had been among the first generation of India's Westernizers, who believed that the colonized would be led toward self-determination.

1851 Scottish Mag. Oct. 477 No wonder the conscience of the westernising Bishop of Glasgow smites him.

1859 La Crosse (Wisconsin) Independent Republican 7 Sept. It has long been considered that a little westernizing of eastern men generally would do no harm.

1893 Sketch 1 Feb. 38/2 The westernising of India is..shown in the most curious ways.

1930 S. M. Melamed Breaking Tablets 248 The goal is not the rapid westernizing of little Palestine; the goal is the gradual westernizing of Asia Minor.

2006 K. McDonald Global Movements iii. ix. 185 For secularizing, modernizing, and westernizing regimes, veiling has been a sign of backwardness and the inability to modernize.

1873 Galaxy Aug. 190 His late rapid and radical progress in westernization (to evolve a word that the Japanese will need) justifies great expectations of him.

1966 N. A. Chance Eskimo N. Alaska ii. 22 Concepts of hygiene vary widely and appear to be in direct proportion to the degree of Westernization.

1996 India Today 30 June 155/3 With television..westernisation has seeped to the middle and lower middle-classes.