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Definition of Russify
1. v. t. To Russianize; as, to Russify conquered tribes.
Definition of Russify
1. Verb. To make or become more Russian. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Russify
1. to make Russian [v -FIED, -FYING, -FIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Russify
Literary usage of Russify
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical by John Britton, James Norris Brewer, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Frederic Shoberl, Joseph Nightingale, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, John Bigland, John Evans, Thomas Rees (1812)
"... to iiis russify. Holing^hed relates this as a presage of taa Arch-rebel'*
future cruelties: while the Welsh considered tt *> in omen of the pat ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1902)
"Russia might not try to russify the Greeks as she has been trying, in defiance
of her pledges, to russify the Finns, for the Greeks ..."
3. The Chautauquan by Chautauqua Institution (1910)
"Attempts to russify her were possibly made prior to the war with Japan and the
... They strive to russify Poland and other annexed -but unassimilated ..."
4. The Newspaper Press edited by Alexander Andrews (1867)
"... the old Russian party in their endeavours to russify the Baltic provinces.
It appears not to be the intention of the Government to make any alteration, ..."
5. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes by Robert Burton (1800)
"... of russify Against the stream of all other Geographers, would fasten it '•upon
those Northern inhabitants. ..."
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