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Haitianization en · NOUN

Etymology

From Haitian + -ization.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The process of making something Haitian.
  2. (uncountable) The process of something taking on Haitian characteristics.
    • ...increased unrest on the part of slaves. The latter... sharpened masters' long-standing fears of "Haitianization", already made acute by the 1835 Malê rebellion... 2010, Robert W. Slenes, edited by Mark M. Smith and Robert L. Paquette, The Oxford Handbook of Slavery in the Americas, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →DOI, 5 Brazil, page 124:
    • The earlier political consensus disappeared, and the strength of Jamaican democracy was severely tested. Talk of the gradual "Haitianization" of the island replaced predictions of economic takeoff. 1985, John D. Forbes, Jamaica Managing Political and Economic Change, Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute Press, →ISBN, page 3: