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Definition of Italianise
1. [v -ISED, -ISING, -ISES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Italianise
Literary usage of Italianise
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Short History of French Literature by Leon Emile Kastner, Henry Gibson Atkins (1907)
"... Francoise (1579) he affirms the inferiority of Italian once more, and in the
Nouveaux Dialogues du Langage Francois Italianise (published anonymously at ..."
2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1852)
"... which most others, like the captain's descendants, laid aside ; as Bonaparte
did during his triumphant campaign in Italy, in order to un-Italianise and ..."
3. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1874)
"... St. Paul's would be as great a mistake as it would to Italianise Westminster
Abbey. That was a mistake which the spirit himself had ..."
4. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance by Joel Elias Spingarn (1908)
"... italianise. As Ronsard and Du Bellay represent the foreign elements that went
to make up classicism in France, so the author of the Quintil Horatian may ..."