Republicanize
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To convert (a state etc.) to republican principles. transitive
"France was republicanized."
Example
More examples"June 14, 1807, Thomas Jefferson, "Letter to John Norvell" He has taken the text of Hume as his ground work, abridging it by the omission of some details of little interest, and wherever he has found him endeavoring to mislead, by either the suppression of a truth or by giving it a false coloring, he has changed the text to what it should be, so that we may properly call it Hume’s history republicanised."
Etymology
From republican + -ize. Compare French républicaniser.
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