danicize

Example Sentences

• "Christian Levin Sander must be deemed one of the most successful dramatic authors of Denmark. His writings are multifarious, both in German and Danish. […] The Eropolis is a drama intended to Danicize the Italian opera; it is agreeably written, but deserves no praise beyond this."
• "Denmark, with a view of bringing about the incorporation of the Duchy, considers it useful, for the colouring of her lawless proceeding, to Danicize the rising generation. In a large number of districts, where from time immemorial German has been spoken in school and church, the Danish idiom is forced upon the people."
• "[W]hat your correspondent says that the Government has no intention to suppress the German language in South Schleswig, is precisely the point in dispute. There are not a few who imagine that it is the intention of Government gradually to promote the Danicizing (to coin a word) of the country as far as the Eider; […]"
• "[T]he Greenland Eskimo of the present day are comparatively little altered from their ancestors a century ago, except that they now profess Christianity. It may be that they still live on in the good old way, subjects of the Dane, but not Danicised except in a few unimportant matters."
• "[T]he Danish priests who entered Faroese society after the Reformation were quickly ensnarled in the web of Faroese kinship. Committed to the system of land tenure upon which their own prosperity and the fortunes of their heirs were based, they did not significantly danicize the Faroes."
• "On 10 June 1967 he [Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark] married Princess Margrethe, who became Queen Margrethe II in 1972, and his name was Danicized to Henrik."