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Normandize en · VERB

Etymology

From Normandy + -ize.

Meanings

1. To make more Norman; to subject to a Norman influence.
   • But a very ingenious author has, with great plausibility, sketched the process by which the Saxon was Normandized. 1802, The British Critic, and Quarterly Theological Review, page 220:
   • Being Normandized was the price England paid for being Europeanized (Haskins, 1915: 82). 2015, Omar Guerrero-Orozco, Public Administration in Great Britain: History, Institutions, and Ideas:
   • Thus, in time, fair England was Normandized; William, with dignity, rested and gormandized. 1897, The Century: 1897 - Volume 54, page 958:

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