Grecization

See also: grecization

English

Alternative forms

• grecization

Etymology

From Greco- +‎ -ization.

Noun

Grecization (countable and uncountable, plural Grecizations)

1. (uncommon) Hellenization.
   • 2005, Jack N. Lightstone, “Urbanization in the Roman East and the Inter-Religious Struggle for Success”, in Richard S[tephen] Ascough, editor, Religious Rivalries and the Struggle for Success in Sardis and Smyrna (Studies in Christianity and Judaism; 14), Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier University Press for the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion, →ISBN, section “Broadening the Context”, page 217:

     Sixth, Jones views the spread of Greek as a correlative sign of the civilizing of the east. To Jones, “Grecization” is the result of urbanization.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Grecization.