Normanize

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To convert to the language or culture of Normandy.

    "Out of gratitude for this large inheritance, or in compliance with the fashion of that day to Normanize, the Saxon lords of Ruby thence assumed the appellation of Nevill."

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"Out of gratitude for this large inheritance, or in compliance with the fashion of that day to Normanize, the Saxon lords of Ruby thence assumed the appellation of Nevill."

Etymology

From Norman + -ize.

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