Frenchize

English Alternative forms en Frenchise Etymology From en French ize. Verb To make or become more French; to make or become more like France, the French language, or French-speaking people. en gallicize en 1849 April Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature and Art The Recluse. No. I Park Benjamin 34 4 But I shall not twist the English language out of all shape and comeliness; I shall not Germanize and Frenchize and Italianize; I shall express my ideas in the simplest possible words; I shall always choose the Saxon rather than the Norman; I shall endavor to write so that "he who runs may read." en 1926 Educational Administration & Supervision - Volume 12 231 The French-Canadian does not Frenchize. In Canada, for three centuries, he has been hemmed in by English and Scotch colonists and he has never Frenchized any one. He comes from a stock to whom the thought is repugnant of making French out of any less fine material. en 1931 Is [the] truth wicked? John Green Sims 36 Resolved, that the government should "Fordize," or Kulturize, the necessarily large-scale occupations in a way that would more or less "French-ize" America; Resolved, that individuals not wait for the government to "Frenchize." en 2015 So They Want Us to Learn French Matthew Hayday Mallory saw all of this as part of a giant plot of Quebec nationalists to seize control of the government and “Frenchize” Canada with the support of the “mother country” of France. en France