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Definition of Frenchifying
1. frenchify [v] - See also: frenchify
Lexicographical Neighbors of Frenchifying
Literary usage of Frenchifying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Girl of the Period: Her Ways and Views by Anne Virginia Sharp Patterson (1877)
"... frenchifying. NOTHING so forcibly strikes the ordinary newspaper or magazine
reader in these latter years of our Lord, as the number of French words and ..."
2. The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life by John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1853)
"An alien duty against England alone will not answer the end. She will elude it
by employing Dutch, French, Swedish, or any other ships, and by frenchifying, ..."
3. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1902)
"... and Swift, who were frenchifying the English tongue, polishing away at once
its roughness and its vigor, introducing the French clearness of expression, ..."
4. Shakespeare from Betterton to Irving by George Clinton Densmore Odell (1920)
"The "frenchifying" of it by Garrick was the only break in the inheritance.
One can only wish, for curiosity's sake, that Bell had been enabled to print the ..."
5. The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life by John Adams (1853)
"An alien duty against England alone will not answer the end. She will elude it
by employing Dutch, French, Swedish, or any other ships, and by frenchifying, ..."
6. Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature by Georg Morris Cohen Brandes (1906)
"They attacked pseudo-classicism, the tire-J some and monotonous frenchifying and
modernising of1 all ages and nationalities. They took as their watchword ‘9 ..."
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