continentalize
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To spread throughout the continent.
verb
To make or become more culturally European.
Example Sentences
- "He who would continentalize our education would continentalize our history. I do not think that we shall be continentalized; I think that the movement has failed."
- "Used in connection with Christianity, as in the title of a well-known book, Pan-Americanism in Its Religious Aspect, it provincializes, or at best, continentalizes what is by nature universal."
- "In defense of the treaties, it may be stated that they will continentalize the Monroe doctrine, that in a case like that cited above, all the Americas will unite to drive out the intruder."
- "To continentalize our economies and cultures now would be a victory for the right, for such action would only serve to strengthen the already immense power of American-owned multinational corporations on a continental basis and would shatter the existing socialist elements in our agrarian west, our trade unions and our political parties."
- "[Norris] was one of the least sectional of American novelists, with a vision of his native land which attached him to the movement, then under discussion to "continentalize" American literature by breaking up the parochial habits of the local colour school."
- "The increased continental consciousness of multinationals has pushed them to continentalize their operations; that is, rationalize manufacturing and other functions on a continental basis."
Etymology
From continental + -ize.