Normandize

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Etymology

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From Normandy +‎ -ize.

Verb

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Normandize (third-person singular simple present Normandizes, present participle Normandizing, simple past and past participle Normandized)

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

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