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Definition of Bastardization
1. Noun. Declaring or rendering bastard. "The annulment of their marriage resulted in the bastardization of their children"
2. Noun. An act that debases or corrupts.
Generic synonyms: Debasement, Degradation
Derivative terms: Bastardise, Bastardize
Definition of Bastardization
1. Noun. A degradation of a language caused by the passage of time or geographical remoteness. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bastardization
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bastardization
Literary usage of Bastardization
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1909)
"If uniformity, eternal peace and bastardization of all nations is devoutly wished,
then let us spread the English language. ..."
2. Race Or Mongrel: A Brief History of the Rise and Fall of the Ancient Races by Alfred Paul Karl Eduard Schultz (1908)
"It would seem that nothing in this world could bring about the deterioration and
degradation of as great a race as the Hindoo race; but bastardization, ..."
3. The Analysis of Racial Descent in Animals by Thomas Harrison Montgomery (1906)
"It follows, accordingly, that in neither of the known kinds of bastardization,
the Mendelian or the unisexual, is there any evidence that variations or ..."
4. Mental Culture in Burmese Crisis Politics: Aung San Suu Kyi and the National by Gustaaf Houtman (1999)
"It is not until Sangermano s time that 'Burmese' had come into common usage,
which Sangermano nevertheless recognized as a bastardization of its Portuguese ..."
5. The Political Text Book: Comprising a View of the Origin and Objects of by William Carpenter (1833)
"... by the Election of Lady Jane Grey, and the bastardization of King Henry's
Daughters. Elizabeth 2 Mary 1 A foreign King called in to assume the Crown. ..."
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