modernizing en · ADJ
Meanings
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Reformist; tending to modernize.
However, it must be remembered that the content of rural education often is not very “modernizing.”
1970, Douglas Ensminger, Food Enough or Starvation for Millions, page 529:In these early stages of political modernization, the military officers play a highly modernizing and progressive role.
1968, Samuel P. Huntington, Political Order in Changing Societies, →ISBN, page 203:[Gilbert Murray] was not only learned in Greek and Latin, but was a classicist of a particularly modernizing kind.
2013, Douglas Kerr, “John Buchan, Myth and Modernism”, in Kate Macdonald, Nathan Waddell, editors, John Buchan and the Idea of Modernity, →ISBN, page 143:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most modernizing | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| modernising | alternative | lexicographic | |
| more modernizing | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |