2. Noun. (context impolite slang) Something Frenchified. ¹
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Definition of Frenchification
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Frenchification
Literary usage of Frenchification
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Incantation of the Law Against Inept Critics: A Guide to Cryptic Thinking by Morten St. George (2006)
"Let's not forget that a general recourse was the frenchification of Latin words
... Based on frenchification techniques used elsewhere, there is only one ..."
2. The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels and Explorations of the by Jesuits, Reuben Gold Thwaites (1901)
"... 6, 85-89, 7, 265, 287, 297, 9, 1o3-1o5, 223, 11, 53, 95, 16, 255, 47, 241 ;
frenchification and effect upon, 9, 1o3, 1o7, 223, 10, 27, 11, 49, 93-95. ..."
3. The Schools of Medieval England by Arthur Francis Leach (1915)
"... probably due, not to any reactionary tendencies in his educational views, but
by way of deliberate counterbalance to the frenchification and monasticism ..."
4. Belgium: A Personal Narrative by Brand Whitlock (1919)
"They were received by the Chancel- where French influences pursued the work of
frenchification. Obviously, it is a great and difficult problem to enlarge ..."
5. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1899)
"If Miss Clavering managed to get out any of the frenchification, there must have
been a great deal to begin with, for French phrases are sprinkled as if out ..."
6. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1849)
"5) blames this, as a mere affectation of frenchification, but he allows that the
stanza often occasions languid and useless epithets, vain circumlocutions, ..."
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