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Americanize   Listen
verb
Americanize  v. t.  (past & past part. americanizer; pres. part. americanizing)  To render American; to assimilate to the Americans in customs, ideas, etc.; to stamp with American characteristics.






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"Americanize" Quotes from Famous Books



... pictures'd make a reformer laugh. I picked up the book in German on an Ann Street sidewalk stand, caught the Big Idea right then and there; to Americanize the ...
— Success - A Novel • Samuel Hopkins Adams

... attacked what was most sacred to Luther and most prominent in the Lutheran Confessions. In this he was seconded by Weyl in Lutherische Hirtenstimme and other publications in the General Synod. Thus, while professing and pretending to Americanize the Lutheran Church, the leaders of the General Synod, in reality, were zealous in denaturing, corrupting, and inoculating it with views and ways prevailing in the Reformed churches ever since the days of Zwingli, Bucer, Calvin, and Wesley. The coryphaei of the General Synod, in order to impart ...
— American Lutheranism - Volume 2: The United Lutheran Church (General Synod, General - Council, United Synod in the South) • Friedrich Bente



Words linked to "Americanize" :   alter, change, American



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