McAdamization en · NOUN
Etymology
From McAdamize + -ation.
Meanings
-
(alt-of, alternative, uncountable) Alternative spelling of macadamization.
alt of macadamization
Imagine a street much wider than Pennsylvania Avenue, smooth as McAdamization can render it, down whose length at regular intervals rise spreading trees — divide it into four avenues, each rejoicing in its Arch of leaves — if not as grand, at least as complete as that of Temple Street New Haven that used to excite my special wonder & enthusiasm.
1863 June 27, Douglas French Forrest, “Running blockade at Charleston: May 27 – July 29, 1863”, in William N[orwood] Still, Jr., editor, Odyssey in Gray: A Diary of Confederate Service, 1863–1865, Richmond, Va.: Virginia State Library, published 1979, →ISBN, page 24:The road in this vicinity was graded, stone prepared along the line for McAdamization, along Main street it was paved, the bridge over Whitewater was built, &c.
1873 September 13, “Wayne County Turnpike Company”, in The Richmond Times, volume 1, number 40, Richmond, Ind.: Times Printing Company, →OCLC, page 4, column 1:Ours is a matter-of-fact age—an age of steam and railway and McAdamization and labor-saving machinery—the poetry of Time has gone by forever, and we have only the sober prose left us.
1831, John Greenleaf Whittier, Legends of New England […], Gainesville, Fla.: Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, published 1965, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 64:Ultimately, Whigs regarded the outcome with mixed emotions. As champions of state-funded internal improvements, they favored recommendations like railroad construction, turnpike McAdamization, and the dredging of rivers and harbors.
1995, Joseph Conan Thompson, “Vindication”, in Willie Person Mangum: Politics and Pragmatism in the Age of Jackson, Gainesville, Fla.: University of Florida, →OCLC, page 288: