Definition of Russify

1. v. t. To Russianize; as, to Russify conquered tribes.

Definition of Russify

1. Verb. To make or become more Russian. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Russify

1. to make Russian [v -FIED, -FYING, -FIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Russify

russellite
russels
russet
russet scab
russeted
russeting
russetings
russets
russetting
russettings
russety
russias
russificatory
russified
russifies
russify (current term)
russifying
russophobia
russula
rust
rust-free
rust fungi
rust fungus
rust inhibitor
rust mite
rust off
rustable
rustbelt
rustbelts
rustbucket

Literary usage of Russify

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical by John Britton, James Norris Brewer, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Frederic Shoberl, Joseph Nightingale, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, John Bigland, John Evans, Thomas Rees (1812)
"... to iiis russify. Holing^hed relates this as a presage of taa Arch-rebel'* future cruelties: while the Welsh considered tt *> in omen of the pat ..."

2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1902)
"Russia might not try to russify the Greeks as she has been trying, in defiance of her pledges, to russify the Finns, for the Greeks ..."

3. The Chautauquan by Chautauqua Institution (1910)
"Attempts to russify her were possibly made prior to the war with Japan and the ... They strive to russify Poland and other annexed -but unassimilated ..."

4. The Newspaper Press edited by Alexander Andrews (1867)
"... the old Russian party in their endeavours to russify the Baltic provinces. It appears not to be the intention of the Government to make any alteration, ..."

5. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes by Robert Burton (1800)
"... of russify Against the stream of all other Geographers, would fasten it '•upon those Northern inhabitants. ..."

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