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stalwartize en · VERB

Etymology

From stalwart + -ize.

Meanings

1. To make stalwart.
   • He represented the chief hope of "stalwartizing" the state. 2010, Gerald Carson, The Social History of Bourbon, page 118:
   • The Administration has been goaded by the charges made in and out of Congress that it has been trying to “stalwartize" the party by removals in the civil service, into publishing a sort of schedule of the President's doings in that field. 1882, The Nation - Volume 35, page 22:
   • In a word, the Executive and those from whom he takes advice have undertaken the peculiar task of stalwartizing the Republican party, and that too when the very name of stalwart has become a reproach. 1882, United States. Congress, Congressional Record:

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