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Greekification en · NOUN

Etymology

From Greek + -ification.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) the act or process of Greekifying.
    • In 175 BC a powerful Jewish family, the Tobiads, seized power in Jerusalem, and began the Greekification of the city. 2014, Matthew Kneale, An Atheist's History of Belief: Understanding Our Most Extraordinary Invention, Catapult, →ISBN:
    • The principal threat to the Bulgarian national identity in the 18th century has been Greekification, if the Ottomans had a policy of Turkification and Islam, why did the wealthy Bulgarians been more Greekified, more than being Turkified, was not it the Pope Paisi, the first inciter of Bulgarian nationalism, who had resisted Greek economic and cultural domination. 1995, Eurasian Studies:
    • This Outline of Knowledge, later to be called a Table of Intents, later to be called a Table of Contents, finally to be named by Adler the Propaedia, a bogus Greekification that means something like before-knowledge, was to become the first principle of Plan B. 1974, The Atlantic Monthly:

Synonyms

Hellenization