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Definition of Occidentalize
1. Verb. Make western in character. "The country was Westernized after it opened up"
Generic synonyms: Alter, Change, Modify
Antonyms: Orientalise, Orientalize
Derivative terms: Western
Definition of Occidentalize
1. [v -IZED, -IZING, -IZES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Occidentalize
Literary usage of Occidentalize
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Village Life in China: A Study in Sociology by Arthur Henderson Smith (1899)
"He would have a separate place for human passengers and for beasts, and in general
shorten the time, diminish the discomforts and occidentalize the whole ..."
2. ... The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1892)
"The hardest and most painful task of the student of to-day is to occidentalize
and modernize the Asiatic modes of thought which have come down to us closely ..."
3. Students and the Present Missionary Crisis: Addresses Delivered Before the by International Convention (1910)
"... and will not waste their energy in trying to Occidentalize the East and in
thrusting upon them too many of our own Western prepossessions and ideas; ..."
4. Wise Men from the East and from the West by Abraham Mitrie Rihbany (1922)
"... and to Occidentalize an Oriental, by permanently transplanting him in early
youth to the new environment and thus giving him a new birth and nurture. ..."
5. The Christian Approach to Islam by James Levi Barton (1918)
"Hitherto the effort has too often been to occidentalize the Oriental when he
accepts Christianity. This is by no means desirable. ..."
6. Japan, Real and Imaginary by Sydney Greenbie (1920)
"It is impossible completely to Occidentalize him. True that the white man is as
unyielding when it comes to being Orientalized and that in consequence ..."
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