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Flemishize en · VERB

Etymology

From Flemish + -ize.

Meanings

1. (British, English, Oxford, US) To render or become more Flemish.
   • According to the BELGA agency, the TDW proposes to "extract heavy payment for any Flemishizing action henceforth undertaken in Wallonia." 1979 October 3, “Group formed to defend Francophone Fourons”, in West Europe Report, number 1478, United States Joint Publications Research Service, page 18:
   • It is almost a year ago (Temps, June 27, 1915,) that the German Governor General in Belgium, von Bissing, spread a report to the effect that on the request of some Flemings—no names mentioned, and for good reasons, indeed—he had declared himself willing immediately to Flemishize the Ghent University, on the sole condition of finding professors able to teach in Flemish. 1916 August 2, A Flemish Belgian, “Vain attempts to divide the Belgians. Attitude of the Flemings Toward Germany as Set Forth by Their True Spokesmen.”, in The New York Times:
   • In Flanders, there has grown up a young literature, enthusiastic for the extirpation from Flemish soil of all that is in any way related to the French language; but, in spite of this revival of the Flemishizing spirit, the proportion of the languages is slowly changing in favor of the French: the Walloon provinces are more prolific, and the hundreds of thousands of Flemings who travel back and forth between France and Belgium learn more or less French in the great manufacturing cities of northern France. 1892, Onésime Reclus, translated by Malvina Antoinette Howe, A bird's-eye view of the world, Boston: Ticknor and Company, page 128:

Forms

Translations (1)

nl vervlaamsen (to render or become more Flemish)